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Frances Lu
Frances Lu is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her research is in the fields of labour and development economics, and focusses on the topics of gender and inequality. Prior to joining UCSD, she worked as a Research Assistant on projects affiliated with J-PAL South Asia and received a B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University.
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The impact of displacement on women’s marriage outcomes: Evidence from the partition of India
Women and children are made particularly vulnerable by displacement – the high incidence of gender-based violence and vulnerability to child marriage is well-documented in literature. Using data from Pakistan’s 1973 Housing, Economic, Demographic Characteristics survey, this article examines the impact of displacement during the partition of India (1947-1949) on the outcomes of young women, and finds that adolescent displaced women were more likely to get married at the time of partition, and experienced higher child marriage and fertility rates.
