The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary … 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the … prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra …-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends … significant peer effects on only a few of the examined measures of women's autonomy. In contrast, peer effects exist on all …

rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence … which women have more limited access to divorce than men …

This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and …

Women and Girls) sets a series of ambitious targets that will measure progress towards attaining this goal. One such target … is to: 'eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. In this … ending child marriage. The authors begin by setting out the current context presenting data on child marriage and its impacts …

strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies. Improving girls' education is also a priority of the government …. Unfortunately, the cultural, economic, and social conditions that have historically contributed to child marriage, early …

indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …