women to participate in these disciplines. This drop in social barrier materializes ﾖ later ﾖ by the authorization for women … of women in that sector and population mean, becomes more positive after removal of the social barrier …

economic consequences of women's rights documents that more rights for women lead to more spending on health and children …Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or …

, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long …-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and … health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …

We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by … educated parents. In total, health conditions explain 18% of the gap in cognitive ability and 65% of that in language ability …

. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after … of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education …

over time for both women and men and show the rising effect of selection for women in recent years. Returns to education …The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on … diverge for women and men over this period in the selection-adjusted results but converge in the OLS results, while returns to …

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary … households are more likely to attend school one year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women's influence on …

at different stages of schooling. We find suggestive evidence that positive effect of the increased returns to education …

India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …