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Female Opportunity Cost Model of Marriage and FertilityExposure to business process outsourcing recruitment caused a 5.1 percentage point reduction in the likelihood of being married (p < 0.05) and a 5.7 percentage point reduction in having given birth (p < 0.05), alongside a 0.35 decline in lifetime desired fertility (p < 0.01).RCT Guided Peer Friendship BuildingSenior-junior pairs meet weekly to discuss practical daily topics (such as purchasing medicine) and answer closeness-building questions; empirical impacts on mental health and retention are forthcoming.RCT Intergenerational Gender Norm SocializationChildren over 12 whose mothers were assigned any job became 0.1 standard deviations less traditional in their gender views, whereas attitudes of younger children showed no measurable change.RCT Intimate Partner Backlash RiskImpact metrics evaluating domestic backlash and intimate partner violence rates following technical job training and employment are ongoing and forthcoming.RCT Intra-Household Labor GatekeepingNearly 25% of women and 33% of men agreed that "women cannot go out to work," and a majority of married women reported that their husbands had the primary say in employment decisions.RCT Male Provider StigmaAt baseline, 56% of men anticipated that community members would view them as a bad provider if their wives worked outside the home for pay.RCT Marital and Fertility Trajectory ShiftsContextual baseline notes female sterilization as the most common method among Indian women; evaluation findings measuring treatment impacts on delayed marriage and reduced fertility are forthcoming.RCT Post-Intervention Marital Matching and Spouse Quality AdjustmentYoung women from treatment villages who got married did not face lower spouse quality; instead, their husbands were significantly more likely to have completed secondary education and work in non-agricultural, white-collar occupations compared to husbands of married women in control villages.RCT Multidimensional Norm Indexing in Caste HierarchiesScheduled Caste Hindu women face the fewest restrictions (mean index = 0.48), Upper Caste Hindu women face 50% more restrictions (mean index = 0.75), and Muslim women face more than double the restriction intensity of Upper Caste women (mean index = 1.70).RCT Non-Carceral Institutional Attachment for At-Risk YouthSummer youth employment programs establish an alternative municipal touchpoint for 75,000 youth annually, generating a 17% reduction in overall arrests and a 23% reduction in felony arrests during employment without triggering carceral stigma or system avoidance behaviors.Expert Theory Post-Indexed Communication Lag ParameterizationPeer effect estimates for submission and quality stabilize when the communication lag threshold reaches $\tau \ge 80$ intermediate sentences, converging directly to the unbounded benchmark ($\tau = \infty$, $\beta = 0.533, p < 0.01$ for submission; $\beta = 0.537, p < 0.01$ for extensive quality).RCT Post-Migration Mobility RestrictionsMigrant female workers relocating over 100 kilometers reside in factory hostels under movement restrictions that curtail social network building.Observational Study Semantically Weighted Peer Networks and Multidimensional Communication BalanceAggregate interaction flows between peers across business-weighted and sentiment-weighted networks exhibit a high positive correlation ($r = 0.699$), and both correlate strongly with the unweighted benchmark network ($r = 0.821$ and $r = 0.951$, respectively). Virtual-within peer effects on proposal submission remain virtually identical across benchmark ($\beta = 0.533, p < 0.01$), business ($\beta = 0.521, p < 0.01$), and sentiment ($\beta = 0.530, p < 0.01$) networks.RCT Peer Social Network Spillover in Industrial CohortsResearch is ongoing with results forthcoming; study design tracks spillover mechanisms and the bi-directional link between mental health and social network creation.RCT Social Norm Mobility IndexIndex measurements established that Muslim women faced the most severe mobility restrictions, followed by upper-caste Hindu women, whereas scheduled-caste Hindu women faced the least severe restrictions. Business training with peer support was most effective among women facing severe social restrictions.RCT