Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …

increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer … resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We … find that expenditure patterns do vary with proxies for women's bargaining power. Pro-boy discrimination is suggested by …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the Black Death episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will actually … community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether son preference is associated with girls bearing a larger burden of …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …