This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using … induce changes in the sectoral composition of the local economy that are detrimental to women's labor market outcomes. We … labor force participation or has any impact on local marriage and fertility patterns. While our results are consistent with …

The transformation of women's lives in the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching social and … economic phenomena, affecting not only women, but also their partners and children. This Handbook provides the first … into three broad sections-marriage and fertility; the labor market; and special topics and policy issues. Separate and …

Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives … whether and at what age women marry and what living arrangements they adopt at marriage. We also investigate the crucial … and those of their families. This paper focuses on the forces that shape women’s choices and the patterns of their lives …

a parent harms women during the recruitment process. We find that getting married decreases the probability to receive a … call back for women by 3 percentage points on average. This represents a decrease in callback rates for women by 30%. On … effect on married women is driven by the discrimination against married women with no children and married women with one …