violence. Besides, factors related to marriage setting have a significant role in the effect of women’s superior status on … last decade. Analyzing a very rich nationwide representative survey, we show that relative status of women in terms of …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant … evidence that the effect of women's marital age on physical violence arises because older brides, as compared to younger brides …

from India and a difference-in-differences approach, the study shows that women’s age of marriage decreased, and the …This study examines the effects of communal violence on women’s marital outcomes. Using individual-level survey data … synthetic control methods suggest that these effects are prominent two years after the riots and have increased over time. Women …

divorce legislation and prioritizing the safety of IPV survivors in family policy interventions. …

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 … norms with respect to the labor market, where most women participated in the labor market full-time. Patriarchal gender …

Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased … that the work program leads to more violence against women. We argue that the effect could be explained by a "male backlash …" mechanism, where husbands exercise violence to regain power within marriage. …

women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …

and couples in which women earned more. The empirical results for dual-earner couples are in line with the theory. The … respect to their income than singles. This is a novel result that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self …

-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 …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …