higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by … policy related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in African countries …

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the "Black Death" episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will actually … community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …

treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women …

relationships. To estimate causal effects, we examine chronically ill women before and after a medical breakthrough and exploit … differences in these women's health prior to the breakthrough. We show evidence that health improvements induced by the … suggest that both violence and drug use could be reduced by improving women's access to better healthcare …