educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …

greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the latent women empowerment and its latent components (economic factors and financial confidence, managerial control …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners … employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence only for women who live in what they call …

education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation … countries. This development may have far-reaching consequences for the family, challenging traditional patterns of union … formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in …

We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms … of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, do not explain the contribution of women in general. We …

Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well …-being? Our study examines this relationship using a nationally representative dataset from India. Given vast heterogeneity among …

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … standpoint of women's inclusion in economic life. Conditional cash transfers and employment guarantee programs are discussed in …

matching, using data from the Self Help Group microfinance program in India. …