-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 …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

find that Property Insecurity of ethnopolitical minorities does not reduce growth in either the short or long term; that … conflict; and that controlling for civil war, Property Insecurity is associated with higher growth. Economic growth can occur … is reallocated into the hands of investors with access to capital. However, the potentially growth enhancing effect of …

marginalized groups are not. Aggregate long-run growth occurs in the presence of significant property insecurity for marginalized …

assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a …

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

-Saharan Africa and in India. In both regions, substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with marriage: bride price across Sub …-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in which parents choose when their children … regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts reduce such …