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. …

Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed … countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood …. This study examines how extending the maternity leave requirement affects women's decisions to work in the informal or …

The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries … supply. While overall employment does not show any association with childbirth, women's paid work registers a significant … an event study method, we estimate the impact of the first childbirth on women's labour market participation. Our main …

major events (education, marriage, and childbirth) and the concurrent employment status of men and women over their adult …, employment does not show any association with childbirth, women s paid work actually registers a significant increase two to …The impact of childbirth on the labour market participation of women has been discussed extensively in the context of …

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 …

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 …

do not translate into labour market participation. Marriage at a younger age also remains a key driver of women leaving …, 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 …