We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to …

affected women's emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The …The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous … setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …

fertility pressures on women, which favored late female marriages already in the pre-industrial era. The resulting family and … household patterns placed women into a better position to struggle for more gender equality during the subsequent transitions …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … discernible impact upon property and economic crime. In probing mechanisms we argue that men are more prone to crime than women …

representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of … spouse participation. The identification of the impact of polygyny relies on the use of district-level variables as … instruments. We find a positive impact of polygyny on female labour force participation. Turning to a structural approach based on …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …