While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we … explained by suffrage-induced growth in education spending, although early-life health improvements may have also contributed …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi … women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … of which experienced rapid growth in recent years, but for different reasons. The patterns of growth are analyzed in each … “fundamentals” challenge in growth. Out of these seven countries, the traditional path to rapid growth of export oriented …

This paper analyzes the role of specialized high-skilled labor in the growth of the service sector as a share of the … total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being …