find that poor women and men with low levels of education are the most negatively affected by the tradition of bride price … women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …

In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …

differential effects of women's ability and charm on female match incentives. We use these results to assess the separate impacts … of the arrival of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and the advent of the contraceptive pill on female …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …

for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that …Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … husbands have 'purchased' their wives, resulting is worse treatment of wives; and trap women in unhappy marriages due to the …