Background Gender disparities in education continue to undermine girls' opportunities,
despite enormous strides in recent years to improve primary enrolment and attainment for …

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in
economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed argue that gender inequality …

How effective is fact checking in countervailing “alternative facts,” ie, misleading statements
by politicians? In a randomized online experiment during the 2017 French presidential …

Women's entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid can offer a way out of poverty for
families, foster the development of communities, and provide a route to modernizing …

We analyze the role of education as a determinant of mental health. To do this, we leverage
the age‐specific exposure to an educational reform as an instrument for years of education …

Domestic abuse encompasses a range of damaging behaviors beyond physical violence,
including economic and emotional abuse. We analyze the impact of cohabiting with an …

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner
violence using representative data from thirty-one develo** countries, from 2005 to 2016 …

This paper evaluates the impacts of education on women's relational empowerment, within a
context of 70 develo** countries across the world. Exploiting the variation in educational …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-
based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation …