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

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries … more detail specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women’s employment. I present examples of policies …

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. …

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 …

empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their … show an increase in the risk that women experience domestic violence. We then examine forced displacement as a channel and …