This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has …

One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner … (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to … reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural areas, electrification is frequently said to foster women …

This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the …

Using data from the 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey, we ask whether women's economic empowerment -defined … women against domestic violence. Using a simple model of choice of conflict resolution technology among spouses, we find … evidence that economic empowerment protects women in a non-linear way. Low and high levels of empowerment reduce the likelihood …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …