that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of … hypergamy violation on domestic violence, however, is challenging due to unmeasured confounding and reverse causality. To … evidence that violation of hypergamy leads to a significant increase in domestic violence. Further, we provide suggestive …

and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants. These women differ from each other not only in their current socio … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were … under direct British rule, compared to their counterparts, are better off in terms of almost all measures of women …

goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …, these returns are larger for women than for men but the opposite may occur if marriage prevails. Finally, it is shown that …In order to credibly sell legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …

educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit … the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women … relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff …