Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for … women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by … status, and for those residing in Northern India. We present evidence to suggest that women with higher education levels are …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant …

our being”. Women’s in general have devalued Self-concept. The purpose of the present study was to assess the self …-concept of the employed and unemployed women. Self concept scale developed and standardized by Dr. (Miss) Mukhta Rani Rastogi was … used. Sample consists of 100 women 50 employed and 50 unemployed women. Here the t test was used to assess and compare self …

women's led business and improve the business environment in order to stimulate private investment (private sector support … the willingness and ability of firms to hire women. These measures should actually address the weak capacity of the public … sector to create enough jobs to mitigate the severity of women's unemployment. …