One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong … effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of … son preference and women are more likely to be sterilized when their first-born is male. Second, Indian households face …

affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …

towards improving child welfare which can in part be linked to the empowerment of women that has accompanied the …

present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the … investigate whether the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers affects fertility in post-conflict settings. We study the case … with geocoded information on the distance to United Nations bases. We find that women who live in the proximity of …

-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …