violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … suggestive evidence that a woman's decision-making power—measured by active input in household and healthcare decisions—as well … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore …

of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women …In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation …'s awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects …

2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision … of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the … decision of her husband to work or not. In our paper we use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing …

the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …