determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to grant women easy access to the labor market as, despite the obvious … on women toward less discrimination, while the exact opposite holds for men with low-income spouses. Our findings suggest …

may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than men. If employers expect women to do more household work than …, specialization in the family will then make women do most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be broken: Both … affirmative action and family policy can make women spend more effort in the market, which can lead the economy to a non …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

Portugal, enabling us to link companies to their owners, we show that firms owned by serial entrepreneurs (owners of multiple … to other businesses. These differences are already apparent among the very first businesses of serial entrepreneurs … entrepreneurs as an important source of such heterogeneity …

women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to an individually-held commitment savings … women who have below median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift towards female …

female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We find that the arrival of Europeans in Uganda ignited a century …-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and … colonial period. But gender inequality gradually declined during the latter half of the colonial era, and after Uganda …