among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and … competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no …

What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief … advocates a two-pronged approach. First, eradicate discrimination against women, and second, promote catch-up by implementing … more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …

What can be done to increase the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa? This brief … advocates a two-pronged approach. First, eradicate discrimination against women, and second, promote catch-up by implementing … more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …

withdraw children from school and increase the probability that they are selected into farm work. Health shocks to women …

higher-paying skilled labor and white-collar jobs, are less likely to live in poor households, and, for women, fewer …

examine here whether the policy achieves its aim, and how the policy affects reproductive outcomes for women in Ghana … reduces the use of abortion as a result of the policy. On the contrary, rural women significantly increase abortions. This …

Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …

human fertility. Little comprehensive research, however, has been done on the effects of those technologies themselves on … human fertility leaving unanswered the question of whether particular types of agricultural technologies were actually … agricultural change (from 1961 to 1981) and changes in human fertility (from 1971 to 1981) to assess the impact of the former on …