Thursday, April 30 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Cadillac A

Session 10:
Empowerment, Agency and Gender Dynamics

Chair: Ulla Larsen, University of Maryland
Discussant: Sunita Kishor, Macro International Inc.

  1. His and Her Relationship Quality: Effects on Childbearing • Arieke J. Rijken, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

  2. The Quality of Family Relationships and Its Effect on Women’s Agency in India • Keera Allendorf, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  3. Women’s Empowerment across the Life Course in Madhya Pradesh, India: The Influence of Time-Varying and Fixed-Time Covariates • Kerry MacQuarrie, University of Washington

  4. Measurement of Women’s Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh • Simeen Mahmud, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) ; Nirali M. Shah, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Stan Becker, Johns Hopkins University

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