policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … young children is an increasingly important issue in women's employment decisions, in a context where formal childcare is … practically nonexistent. These results have significant implications for policy to raise women's labor force participation in …

first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … is, women that have been visited by an FP public worker have a higher probability of being employed. Moreover, for rural …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … preferences of spouses diverge, and support the view that empowering women in developing countries should lead to more future …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … preferences of spouses diverge, and support the view that empowering women in developing countries should lead to more future …

relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status … interact and how women's 'autonomy' is negotiated to mitigate adverse birth outcomes such as miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth …

Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …