Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

Kenyan women are making a large - although frequently unseen - contribution to the country's economy, particularly in … the agricultural and informal business sectors. But women face more severe legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers … barriers that are preventing women from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy and makes recommendations for addressing these …

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the …