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 …Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage … in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire …

violence. The empirical results suggest that among women who already have given birth to two girls, giving birth to a third …Sex preference and domestic violence are both rich literature, but there is no stream of prior studies linking the two … probability of the mother experiencing domestic violence. Using the random nature of the gender of newborn children, this study …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … decisions of women is used to investigate this relationship. Between the 1920s and the 1970s in Ireland, women working in … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …

female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … sizable child penalties: men and women follow parallel trends before parenthood, but diverge sharply and persistently after … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … norms with respect to housework, where women were the main providers of care within the household, but egalitarian gender …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …