and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these … indicators of the welfare of women and their children improve significantly in conjunction with the program-induced decline in …