Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction,
development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy
between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with …

Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence
norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received …

Lucid, comprehensive, and definitive in its field, this text covers every aspect of economic
analysis of the law. Features: Two new chapters, one on intellectual property, one on …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the
traditional explanations that emphasize life cycle factors, the precautionary saving motive …

Nearly a third of the world's rural population does not live near a paved road, and it is widely
believed that this limits their access to economic opportunities. Using a natural experiment …

We discuss the most popular static and dynamic models of household behavior. Our main
objective is to explain which aspects of household decisions different models can account …

This paper examines the determinants of female autonomy within households in a
developing country. In particular, we investigate the relative contributions of earned versus …

This paper proposes and estimates a static transferable utility model of the marriage market.
The model generates a nonparametric marriage matching function with spillover effects. It …

We document the short-and long-run effects of male-biased sex ratios. We exploit a natural
historical experiment where large numbers of male convicts and far fewer female convicts …