Session 40:
Women's empowerment: measures and determinants
Chair: Sonalde B. Desai, University of Maryland
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
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