findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women’s participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … that marriage by the median age reduces the probability of working for women by 47 percent in Jordan, 33 percent in Tunisia … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage …

in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine …

with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …

Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic … examine the effect of women's employment on domestic violence using the Demographic and Health Survey in Ethiopia. To address … the endogeneity of women's employment decisions due to reverse causality, the study employs an Instrumental Variables …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …