This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … early to save on dowry expenditures. We confirm this underlying mechanism by using a proxy for dowry payments. Our results …

also find no such effect of gender-neutral crimes (such as theft and robbery) on the likelihood of early marriage of girls … marriage-that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. We hypothesize that parents who perceive themselves to … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

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 effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be …

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 …

the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …