permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …

with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …

traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

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 …. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …

market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

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

contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in …Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic …

second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women … holding more conservative gender norms are the ones who mostly reduce their income. This suggests that tax policies can … gender norms. …