significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

groups of women with different fertility rates are compared. The study finds evidence that as a result of the extension of … the maternity leave period, women in the high-fertility age group experience an increase in inactivity rates, informality …, and self-employment. The study points to the need for a redesign of maternity protection policy that would enable the …

boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage …Interventions that aim to change outcomes for women and children typically target women. Yet in contexts where men are …, women or both, with the same intervention in the same context – how their information and beliefs about private and social …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …