women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use … significantly reduced university attendance by women relative to men. Additionally, we find that the policy had a negative impact on …

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …, compounded with isolation from extended family as well as a lack of social and market infrastructure, constrained female … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …

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. …

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 …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …

For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women … larger share of retired women will be divorced. This article uses the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the … Near Term (version 6) to project the retirement resources and well-being of divorced women. We find that Social Security …

microsimulation model to updated earlier projections of Social Security retirement benefits for married women. Changes in women … earnings. For many of those women, benefits based on their own earnings record will account for most (91–92 percent) of their …