Policymakers often argue that increasing access to health care is one crucial avenue for decreasing gender inequality … to the same conclusion. This paper analyzes the relationship between access to child health investments and gender … inequality in those health investments in India. A simple theory of gender-biased parental investment suggests that gender …

This paper explores the extent to which there are gender gaps in the provision of 4 common non-wage benefits offered by … employers: pensions, health insurance, sick leaves, and disability plans. I find that there are gender differences in whether or … fact that women work in low-wage jobs. …

demand factors and by the characteristics, expectations, and social norms regarding work and family of different cohorts of …

Earlier work (Oster, 2005) has argued, based on existing medical literature and analysis of cross country data and …) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has … very tiny effect of maternal hepatitis carrier status on offspring sex ratio. Although this work is quite conclusive for …