-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial …

violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women … domestic violence. Breaking down the estimation by region shows that women's employment decreases domestic violence in all …This study explores how domestic violence and female employment interact and impact female economic empowerment in …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the … consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the … consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the … consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

spouse on the German marriage market, which in turn increases the likelihood of them seeking marriage with women from poorer …This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses … deduced from exchange theory and the economic theory of the family are tested: 1. Low physical and social attractiveness as …