Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives and those of their families. This paper focuses on the forces that shape women’s choices and the patterns of their lives and how these choices and patterns have evolved over...

We use the expansion of access to girls’ or mixed schools in Jordan as a natural experiment to investigate the effects of access to school on women’s education and fertility. We find that having access to a sex-appropriate school in a woman’s sub-district of birth during or prior to her...

This paper examines the contextual and community-level determinants of multidimensional women's empowerment in Egypt, while accounting for the usual individual and household level factors typically included in studies of women's empowerment. The paper analyzes two dimensions of women's...

This research deals with women's empowerment as an outcome of interest by defining the different individual and socio-demographic determinants that affect women's empowerment in the Egyptian society. The paper analyzed two dimensions of women's empowerment; the decision-making and the mobility...