Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …

representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of … spouse participation. The identification of the impact of polygyny relies on the use of district-level variables as … instruments. We find a positive impact of polygyny on female labour force participation. Turning to a structural approach based on …

The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing … literature by providing the first comprehensive assessment of the relationship between women’s age at marriage and own as well as …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses … housework, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as “fair …-1998, the results show that women’s relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative …