in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

educational attainment at origin. Equating women's and men's access to education would probably reduce gender differences in the … use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 …

children and type and intensity of investments in their own education. The interplay between different dimensions of mortality …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …

in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during …