documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …