Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed … countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood …. This study examines how extending the maternity leave requirement affects women's decisions to work in the informal or …

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and … high-resolution georeferenced data, we find systematically less violence against women in traditionally sea-fishing areas …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …