women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

estimates suggest that male top-earners are the main beneficiaries, whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be …

shared among workers. Male top-earners are the main beneficiaries; whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

Purpose - This paper aims to tackle an important question related to women's economic empowerment in highly patriarchal … societies like Egypt. The paper discusses individual, household, wealth and location factors determining women empowerment, as … resources and social constraints that determine women empowerment as measured by the power of women over household decisions and …

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 …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …