Marriage, Taliban Rule, Norms and Women’s Empowerment in Afghanistan
Seth R. Gitter,
Grace Larocque,
Motunrayo Akinloye
Abstract:The Taliban have devastated the rights of women in Afghanistan by limiting their ability to participate in society, potentially causing permanent harm to women’s autonomy within their own marriages. We posit that women married during the Taliban rule may see reduced autonomy based on changes in gender norms from Taliban policy. We estimate the effect of being married during various levels of Taliban rule in 2002, 2009, and 2012 on outcomes in 2015. We use variation in the Taliban’s control in a province at the… Show more
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