Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as measured by consumption. Considerable selection into divorce and …

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 … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

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 …

reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect … variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …

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 …

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 … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …

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 … significantly increases the likelihood of early marriage of girls, while there is no such effect on boys of comparable age group. We …

Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that … common requirement that some of the bride price be paid back upon divorce. We provide evidence towards a better understanding …