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 …

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents … role of women in organized armed groups, there are few accounts of how their participation in the conflict may undermine …, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of …

I explore the long-term effects of internal displacement caused by the Kurdish-Turkish conflict on women's attitudes … view domestic violence as acceptable. As suggestive evidence, I use data from applicants to a women's shelter and show that … forced migrant women endure violence for longer and of greater intensity before deciding to seek assistance. I discuss …

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 … the difference in labour force participation persist. Akerlof and Kranton introduce the concept of identity from sociology …

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. …

representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of … spouse participation. The identification of the impact of polygyny relies on the use of district-level variables as … instruments. We find a positive impact of polygyny on female labour force participation. Turning to a structural approach based on …