this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of … noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of frictions can give rise to the observed empirical relationships …. Then they assess the policy implications of these models. The authors find that targeting transfers to women can have …

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 …

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 …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but …-based difference-in-difference model to examine the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of physical and sexual … intimate partner violence. It also examines the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of controlling …

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 …

correlation is only present among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. These results are consistent … entering the labor force as a husband seeks to counteract her increased bargaining power. By contrast, husbands of women who … violent marriages. These findings are inconsistent with the models of assortative matching in the marriage market, expressive …

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 …

since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor … incomes and husband's education as well as the falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the demand side, the sectors …

ability of a spouse to deny permission for the other to work outside the home, and raising women's minimum age of marriage …. Ethiopia changed its family law, requiring both spouses' consent in the administration of marital property, removing the …. Thus both access to resources and the removal of restrictions on employment served to strengthen women's bargaining …

which women have more limited access to divorce than men … 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 …