knowledge, confidence, and behaviour among rural women in Pakistan. Using a randomized controlled trial conducted in two … selected villages in the Rawalpindi district, women were assigned to receive digital financial literacy training either … topics including budgeting, saving, and secure digital transactions. The training substantially improved women's financial …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women …'s subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women … controls as well as assess the sensitivity of our results to alternative estimation methods. We find that women who face any …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …

. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the … for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women … good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise. …

norms favouring gender discrimination against women. In particular, we develop a utility (rather than behavioural) model to … equity. In particular, men with daughters exhibit more positive attitudes toward women compared to their peers without …

This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption and women's empowerment. Drawing on two rounds of … in alcohol availability due to an alcohol prohibition policy, led to significant gains in women's agency. Women report …, with effects ranging from 11.2 to 14.2 percentage points. We also find improvements in women's mobility and reductions in …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …