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

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have … suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means … for women's nutritional status are compared by marital status across 20 countries. Overall, the results indicate …

Divorce and widowhood succeeded by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to dissolutions and remarriage and hence bear more of the …

The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a … a bride and a groom. When marriage contracts are incomplete, dowries transfer control rights to the party with the … highest incentives to invest in a marriage. When these transactions are costly however, consanguinity can be a more …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-based difference-in-difference model to examine the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of physical and sexual …

It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts … wealth, and women?s education. However, on accounting for observable characteristics, Muslim widows enjoy a higher … mistreated upon widowhood by in-laws. Muslim women are more likely to be chronically undernourished but less nutritionally …

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

considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape … traditional social institutions with negative effects on adult women's health and well-being. Using individual-level data for … Nigeria, the paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons, women with first-born daughters have (and desire) more …

product has dampened rising female headship. However, other subtle transformations occurring across Africa?changes in marriage …This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data …