find that poor women and men with low levels of education are the most negatively affected by the tradition of bride price … women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …

analysis. In this paper we study the unintended consequences of a public information campaign on water quality on the marriage … campaign. We study the impact of the campaign on marriage patterns in rural Bangladesh. Using a difference-in-difference model …, we analyse the age at marriage, bride price agreed at the time of marriage and find that both of them decreased in …

relationship between the mean age at first marriage for women, female labor force participation and the crude divorce rate. We find …

Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives … whether and at what age women marry and what living arrangements they adopt at marriage. We also investigate the crucial … and those of their families. This paper focuses on the forces that shape women’s choices and the patterns of their lives …

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …