Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

-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 …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental …

-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on … state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …

Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and … gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … women's intra-household bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural model of households, I estimate the age …

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …