patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional … society where women and men have similar rights and entitlements alongside a patriarchic and a matrilineal society which have … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …

study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can …

study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre …

young working women. It departs from a theoretical understanding of norms as conditional upon expectations in one … by others influences personal support for women taking up work. Moreover, we address the question of whose views matter … husbands regarding the role of females are a key obstacle to a higher labor force participation of young women in Bangladesh. …

associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … should work outside and women should look after the family". As we conduct a battery of sensitivity analyses and placebo …

second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women …

well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … different ways. Specifically, East German women were required to work full-time whereas West German women were expected to focus …