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. …

This article examines the relationship between women's economic and social empowerment in the context of extreme … cattle. This article argues that interventions which adopt primarily an economic entry point can contribute to women …'s empowerment beyond the economic realm, including in terms of changing intra-household relationships and increasing women's self …

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 …

to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into …

Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet … little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of … marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed …

Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and …

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest … that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon …

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 implementation of reserved seats for women in local government. …