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 …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

relationship between women’s employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women’s work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women’s engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

This paper explores how marriage prospects affect female human capital investments. I exploit a South African legal … reform to identify a positive shock in marital gains to human capital of black women. The reform provides married women with … find that treated women increase their education by 8-10 months and premarital use of the pill by sixteen percentage points …

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit … the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women … relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff …

that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of … hypergamy violation on domestic violence, however, is challenging due to unmeasured confounding and reverse causality. To … evidence that violation of hypergamy leads to a significant increase in domestic violence. Further, we provide suggestive …

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in … implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …