This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both … the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper … builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …

deals with gender equality. The findings of the study highlight the close links present between child marriage, poverty and …Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences … for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in …

We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …

marriage - in a context in which the laws are not strictly enforced. We do so using a randomised video-based information … intervention that aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher … punishments for facilitating early marriage. Follow-up surveys documented an increase in early marriage among treated households …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor …

degree of specialization in more narrowly defined household tasks from the 2001-2019 waves of the Household, Income and …