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

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

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 conduct an experiment on an online marriage market platform that allows us to measure preferences of individuals in …

This paper shares results from an online experiment to assess whether working women face a penalty in the marriage … market in India. Using a randomized controlled trial on a popular Indian matchmaking website, I find that profiles of women … who signal wanting to work after marriage receive upto 22 per cent less interest from men than those of women who have …