Empowered Mothers, Empowered Generations: The Impact of Women's Economic Rights
​​with Elisabeth Wurm

This paper explores the long-run effects of women’s economic rights. Exploiting the timing of mothers’ marriage, we find that children whose mothers had economic rights had fewer children, delayed marriage, and reduced marriage probability. Granted economic rights to women increased women’s occupational standing, increased children’s school enrollment, and decreased child mortality. Our results suggest that economic rights for women impacted women’s relative bargaining position within marriage and shaped future generations.

Working paper: coming soon