productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …

-native wage gap for women …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His … argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men … would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical …

of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary … households are more likely to attend school one year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women's influence on …