whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire … with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is …

The paper examines the short-term implications of urbanization on women empowerment in India. In theory, urbanization … can affect women either positively or negatively. Women in urban areas, compared to their rural counterparts, are thought … women's empowerment remain widespread in urban environments. We measure urbanization using satellite-based nighttime light …

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 …

allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household …-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on …

regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women … rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues with a …'s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …

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

African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the … differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our analysis combines survey data from Ivory Coast s the main migrant … show that migration in the WAEMU is associated with a decline in female labor participation, as it is primarily motivated …

decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially … exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the …