Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for … women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by … status, and for those residing in Northern India. We present evidence to suggest that women with higher education levels are …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant …