Conditions we first show that high income married or cohabiting women do twice as much housework as single women in Southern … with respect to relative wages. We thus present positive evidence for the presence of a “second-shift” that women face in …

such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well …Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … Indian women, we investigate how this link varies by their class and socio-religious identities. Treating women's employment …

medicine. A well documented opt-out revolution is underway, in which women professionals are leaving the workplace in droves … but opt out of family. These men and women forego parenting and stable, long-term relationships in surprisingly high … women. Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, this Chapter shows that among professionals, long-term adult …

The time women allocate to child care varies appreciably according to personal and labour market characteristics. Of … particular note is the finding that better educated women spend more time in most forms of child care activities than their less … possible justification for subsidising the education of women to a greater extent than the subsidy to men's education. It is …

This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why … most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss …

We examine the impact of early marriage across a wide range of outcomes for women in rural western Kenya. The timing of … on many other important life outcomes including labor market participation, earnings, attitudes and beliefs, marriage …

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 …

The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing … literature by providing the first comprehensive assessment of the relationship between women’s age at marriage and own as well as …

This study estimates the causal effect of a European Union-supported women’s shelter project initiated to combat … sets from the national research on domestic violence against women conducted in the years 2008 and 2014. The estimation … non-working women experienced a larger probability or level reductions in violence, suggesting that the effectiveness of …