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Session 40:
Women's empowerment: measures and determinants

Monday, September 28
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Karam 2
Ourika Area
Chair: Sonalde B. Desai, University of Maryland

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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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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