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 …

traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant … evidence that the effect of women's marital age on physical violence arises because older brides, as compared to younger brides …

Indian women, we investigate how this link varies by their class and socio-religious identities. Treating women's employment …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 …

against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …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 …

also find no such effect of gender-neutral crimes (such as theft and robbery) on the likelihood of early marriage of girls … findings are relevant as under-age marriage has negative consequences for the well-being of women in terms of health, education …This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early …

by an improvement in marriage market negotiations and this led to women marrying partners that consume less alcohol. … women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … did not change male mortality or other forms of non-gender based crime. Further, at the individual level I find that …

marriage for women using household and district fixed effects models and propensity-score matching methods. Contingent on the … model and specification, we find a significant increase in age at marriage for women who got married after the onset of the …A rich literature has documented the relationship between age at marriage and girls’ health and educational outcomes …

The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing … literature by providing the first comprehensive assessment of the relationship between women’s age at marriage and own as well as …