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- 04 Oct 2017
- Video
HBS Women's Student Association Webinar
- 05 Oct 2015
- News
Study finds that daughters benefit when moms work
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Güler Sabancı
Güler Sabancı, CEO of one of Turkey’s largest family-owned business groups, Sabancı Holding, describes the importance of workforce... View Details
- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program
- 20 Aug 2019
- News
Back Channels in the Boardroom
- July 2025
- Article
On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity
By: Anke Becker
This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details
Keywords: Infibulation; Female Sexuality; Paternity Uncertainty; Concern About Women's Chastity; Pastoralism; Economic Anthropology; History; Gender; Social Issues; Culture
Becker, Anke. "On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity." Review of Economic Studies 92, no. 4 (July 2025): 2303–2329.
Lynda M. Applegate
Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School. She has also played a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2015
- Video
Investing for Real and Permanent Good
- 26 Jul 2019
- News
10 ways your parents' behaviors shaped who you are today
- Video
Lilian Simbaqueba
Lilian Simbaqueba, the founder of LiSim, one of Colombia’s first microfinance companies, describes the challenges she has faced as a female business leader in Colombia, the challenges women in general face with... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India
Keywords: by Reshmaan Hussam