Fertility declines in developing countries: do they empower women? • Anju Malhotra, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) ; Nancy E. Riley, Bowdoin College

Measurement of women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh • Simeen Mahmud, BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University ; Nirali M. Shah, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Stan Becker, Johns Hopkins University

Women’s empowerment and family formation across the life course in Madhya Pradesh, India: the influence of time-varying and fixed empowerment resources. • Kerry MacQuarrie, University of Washington

The effect of gender role norms, sexual norms and autonomy on couples’ HIV risk in North India • Alpna Agrawal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Shelah S. Bloom, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Chirayath Suchindran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill