Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying …This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Key methodological issues include how to focus …This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic … women's access to divorce and to property. …

also find no such effect of gender-neutral crimes (such as theft and robbery) on the likelihood of early marriage of girls … findings are relevant as under-age marriage has negative consequences for the well-being of women in terms of health, education …This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early …

marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed … marriage contracts. As well as describing the limited literature on the economics of marriage in North Africa, this paper draws … for the economics of marriage in North Africa. New empirical evidence is presented on the economics of marriage in Egypt …

Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and … persistence. We extend the analysis proposed by Bertrand et al. for Brazil. Specifically, we analyse the impact of gender identity …

women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …

In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …