women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in … mortality is for marriage to occur earlier to avoid women's exposure to HIV/AIDS risks under the condition that the risks are …"This paper examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among …

sum, schooling increases the opportunity cost of marriage for women, which delays marriage and increases their mortality …"The institution of marriage plays some role in determining one's risk of exposure to HIV. Since the transmission of … women. Therefore, the choice of when and who to marry appears to be related to risk of exposure. The objective of this paper …

concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited. Educated young women are more … the cost of hiring women. …

concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited. Educated young women are more … the cost of hiring women. …

employment. Such a specification is often inadequate, especially for analyses of agricultural supply issues. With more … employment), and inequality constraints on agricultural factor use. In an analysis of reduced agricultural water supplies in … Egypt, we show how such a model can generate realistic results concerning water use and productivity that cannot be captured …

four case studies on Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It argues that food security-related policies and programs build …

promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …

whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …