larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …

compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

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 …

domestic violence against women. We find that children born to mothers exposed to the reform have a 0.24 standard deviation …

also find no such effect of gender-neutral crimes (such as theft and robbery) on the likelihood of early marriage of girls … marriage-that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. We hypothesize that parents who perceive themselves to … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …

The unequal treatment of children is not gender neutral from the parent side. Our results show that women try to … symmetry between mothers' and fathers' financial situations leads to the perpetuation of gender inequality through generations …

dataset by surveying 6,030 parents and adult children in Mumbai, India, to study selection into arranged marriage and its … effects on spouse choice. I consider the choice between an arranged and a love marriage as the outcome of bargaining between … parents and children, when agents have different preferences for spouse attributes. I find that stronger financial and kinship …