and livestock production. The effect of human capital on household incomes is partly realized through the reallocation of …

Using detailed data from rural Pakistan, this paper investigates whether human capital, learning by doing, gender, and … separate effect of gender and family status. Households seem to operate as hierarchies with sexually segregated spheres of … activity. The head of household and his or her spouse provide most of the labor within their respective spheres of influence …

This paper reviews donor experience with the design of development projects that are sensitive to gender …-specific constraints. The review finds that the gap between intentions and implementation as regards gender-sensitivity is larger in …

debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the …Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender …

the relevant policies and programs are generally silent on mobility-induced vulnerability to HIV. As such, this review …

, migration behaviors, and schooling outcomes, by using household panel data from Malawi, which has the eighth-highest HIV … enrollment, but very few have considered mortality and mobility of orphans. This study uses the Malawi Complementary Panel Survey … regression models with controls for various sets of household and child characteristics and for village fixed effects to examine …

Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an …

functioning of rural nonfarm labor markets is therefore crucial in determining who has access to nonfarm employment. Previous … a detailed household survey of northern and northeastern China, this paper shows that guanxi (social networks), has also … contacts are more likely to obtain nonfarm jobs. Moreover, guanxi has a larger effect on the nonfarm employment opportunities …