household; perceived social norms; and an outcome of household bargaining: investments in her children. The analysis instruments …In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra-household … empowerment and peer effects. Interventions targeting child welfare through women's empowerment may generate second-order effects …

its application to samples of nuclear households, and employs an index of child gender based on the number of children in … the household and related to a specific selective mechanism of discrimination. It demonstrates the effectiveness of this …

, but whether improvements in economic outcomes also change gender norms and practices within the household remains unclear …

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …