This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The … popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of … systematic study of dowry inflation. Using large-sample retrospective survey data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal, we …

"This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The … popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of … systematic study of dowry inflation. Using large-sample retrospective survey data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal, we …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …

This paper empirically assesses the relevance of women's agency for family health and domestic violence outcomes in … women's agency and the health of their children is statistically significant and economically meaningful. In the cases of … spousal agreement variant of women's agency has stronger beneficial correlations vis-a-vis the taking power or giving power …