women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … by an improvement in marriage market negotiations and this led to women marrying partners that consume less alcohol …This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of …

traditional social norms and women's status, in particular, the women's attitude towards violence and incidence of spousal … social norms determine violence against women and under what prevailing norms working women are better-off. …A body of extant literature suggests that improvements in wellbeing and empowerment of women in the process of …

"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the … hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the … hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they … are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents … in rural areas report experiencing physical violence from their husbands. This effect can be explained by an increase in …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage … in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire …

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 …