Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit
women's access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal societies. We …

… ’s Office credits these payments into a beneficiary couple’s … Table 1 describes how Devi
Rupak’s monthly incentives vary for … For a woman i in state s in year t, I adopt the following DD …

… ’s marriage market around the time of their child’s birth, where we define a child’s marriage
… and who married during the year of the child’s birth or the prior four years. We also utilize …

The purpose of this chapter is to review the literature on marriage in developing countries.
Marriage markets in developing countries differ from those in high-income countries in several …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects
across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal
increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility …

Access to prenatal sex-detection technology in India has led to a phenomenal increase in
abortion of girls. We find that it has also narrowed the gender gap in under-five mortality, …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent
and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether …

… ’s reported experience of physical spousal abuse. We find that a plausible channel underlying
this effect is an increase in women’s … husband’s son preference is stronger than the wife’s. …

We experimentally test if enabling individuals to incentivize others to socialize with them can
strengthen social networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for …