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 implementation of reserved seats for women in local government. …

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 …

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 … traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …

This paper shares results from an online experiment to assess whether working women face a penalty in the marriage … who signal wanting to work after marriage receive upto 22 per cent less interest from men than those of women who have … never worked. Women willing to give up work after marriage face a lower penalty. In a country characterized by low female …