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

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 …

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 …

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. …

Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against … women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to … cluster average of women's exposure to family planning messages via radio, we find that if the decision to use contraceptives …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were … under direct British rule, compared to their counterparts, are better off in terms of almost all measures of women …

endogeneity concerns in estimating peer in uences, we utilize exogenous variation in the average exposure of neighbourhood women … impressionable. This underscores the need for enhanced implementation of policies targeting women's empowerment to arrest the …