data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market …

children is prone to greater variability according to life experiences than that of socially adjusted children. We find that … socially maladjusted children and, overall, investment in higher education seems to be relevant. This suggests that … interventions during life development for socially maladjusted children could be important to reduce inequality in adult employment …

, and over 80 percent do not have any friends of another caste. This paper examines the effect of a shock to friends … household; perceived social norms; and an outcome of household bargaining: investments in her children. The analysis instruments … impact of having a friend who received an empowerment shock on a woman who did not receive that shock. The results show …

This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … disease and their likelihood of receiving a nutritious diet. The starting hypothesis, consistent with an universal interest in …