Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

-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 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 implementation of reserved seats for women in local government. …

protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence … arrangements, significant inequalities in access to social protection persist for women across the formal and informal sectors … child grants allocated to the main caregiver has great potential to promote women's empowerment and the achievement of SDGs …

This project aims to explore the effect of wealth shocks on education and marriage for young women in Pakistan … delay early marriage in shock-hit households as they are more creditconstrained. Lastly, higher educated women receive more …. Financial shocks are used to estimate the probability of dropping out of education and into marriage. Using the Pakistan Rural …

for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that …Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … husbands have 'purchased' their wives, resulting is worse treatment of wives; and trap women in unhappy marriages due to the …