We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961 … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous …

-reported empowerment and reduced experiences of domestic and intimate partner violence, it also led to higher rates of early marriage and … in the marriage market. These findings suggest that girls may have exercised greater agency by making strategic decisions … about marriage and childbearing. Our results underscore the complex interplay between empowerment, economic mobility, and …

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in … implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …

In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family …-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands …. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) Design, I document that granting asylum to family-reunified women improves …

We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by women only, men only, or both … persuasion model further predicts that marriage delays are largest when targeting men alone or jointly with women and smallest … leverage an existing randomized controlled trial of an edutainment intervention addressing child marriage decisions for girls …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …, compounded with isolation from extended family, markets, and social infrastructure, constrained female opportunities outside the … home. Frontier women were less likely to report “gainful employment,” but among those who did, relatively more had high …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …

second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women …