-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the … payments in each region (bride price in Africa and dowry in India). Our results highlight the importance of understanding the …

-Saharan Africa and in India. In both regions, substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with marriage: bride price across Sub …-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in which parents choose when their children …% and aggregate income by 4 to 5%, have opposite effects on the marriage behavior of a sample of 400,000 women in the two …

, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … (employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …

Over the past four decades, the Hindu women in India most likely to use sex-selective abortions—well-educated women … see cases that reverse the traditional spacing pattern, with some women with no sons having longer birth intervals than … those with sons. Those least likely to use sex-selective abortions—less-educated women in rural areas—still follow the …

Limited economic opportunity for women reduces their household bargaining power and the economic value of daughters …, amplifying son preference. This paper studies India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the largest workfare program in … the world, which paid men and women equal salary and mandated at least one-third of workers be women. In a setting where …

-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls …

-term migrant in the household. We model the labor outcomes of women as reflected by their participation as major decision … women are less likely than men to be either main or an associated operator. However, in households with a short-term migrant … role of women as farm managers. …

all forms of violence against women and girls within the agenda. However, there is a relative dearth of research on the … women’s economic autonomy and sociocultural norms in a comprehensive way. The present paper is an attempt to critically … affect the experience of domestic violence among women in the two social groups.IBM SPSS version 20 software was used for …