Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

Using longitudinal data from the 2014-2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU …) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced …

men and women spend similar amounts of time in total work. When considering the social norms that explain gender … important to know how men and women from these four countries distribute their time in total work, in order to understand why …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline …