While mankind has been subject to disasters since the beginning of civilization, economic
development has brought about new types of crises like economic and financial crises and …

This paper proposes that ancestral irrigation is associated with lower levels of contemporary
female labor force participation. We test and provide support for this novel hypothesis using …

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the United Kingdom transported convicts to the
penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Most of the convicts who were …

This paper examines the dynamic impact of natural disasters on the individual acceptance of
a physical form of intimate partner violence (IPV). Based on a global sample of individual …

Although recent findings suggest that gender-discriminatory practices unduly increased
female mortality rates during infancy and childhood in historical Europe, especially in …

Recent theoretical developments in growth models, triggered particularly by unified theories
of growth, suggest that the child quantity-quality trade-off is a defining element in our …

The rising concern about gender inequality among the economies in South, South-East, and
Eastern Asia motivates us to study the context of gender development in terms of bridging …

This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor
force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous …

While tenure security is essential to effective land management, there is little empirical
evidence on its environmental impact. Exploiting the staggered rollout of the land registry …

A growing strand of literature documents how historical agricultural and ecological factors
continue to determine women's role and well-being in society through cultural transmission …