women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they … are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents … in rural areas report experiencing physical violence from their husbands. This effect can be explained by an increase in …

2012 and 2016-on domestic violence against women. Diffin- diff and synthetic control estimates suggest that the program … notably increased physical domestic violence against women both at the extensive and intensive margins. Specifically, we find … that the likelihood of physical domestic violence against women in the treated provinces increased by more than 5 …

As the number of refugees rises across the world, anti-refugee violence has become a pressing concern. What explains …

Syrian refugees. Using the information on the timing of first violence after marriage within a discrete-time duration … violence (IPV) among Syrian women in Jordan, the country with the second highest refugee-to-native ratio worldwide. We analyze … exacerbates the risk of IPV among these women. In addition, we explore whether the civil war and refugee status alter marriage …

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re … women in rural India, and was inexplicably shut down in 2014. We argue that a combination of political philosophy, electoral …