relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

relationship between women’s employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women’s work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women’s engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …

Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well …-being? Our study examines this relationship using a nationally representative dataset from India. Given vast heterogeneity among …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of … women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … ( including female suicides) fell. This fall is due to changes in police-reported violence as well as in female mortality. The law …

the social customs that once divided its nation into castes. This Essay takes up the case of child marriage in India to … demonstrate why the “haves” come out ahead in India’s marriage markets … more importantly conquer sophisticated legal labyrinths made less an enigma to repeat players-the legal elites. In India …