sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian … trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in …

sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian … trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in …

culprits are men, it disproportionately affects women. Apparently not seen or felt, it is violence against women. If we can …

evolution. With economic development, the male bias in the child sex ratio increases. South and East India show levels and … western states since the first censuses indicate discrimination against girls. Technological developments permitting sex …'s gender suggests that gender imbalances may be consistent with individual maximization and marriage-market equilibrium …

eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls’ education and this drives much of their …This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their …

In India, most adolescent girls 15-19 years old are married. A study was conducted in 1995-97 in Ahmednagar district of … Maharashtra, India to gain insight into whether and how their reproductive health needs are met, especially for gynaecological … problems, family planning and perceived fertility problems. It included a survey among 302 married girls of this age, and in …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence …

The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary … societies. This paper examines whether dowry impacted household decision making and resource allocation in rural India during … 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the …