community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …), however, we find that local community HIV prevalence has no significant effect on non-infected women's fertility …The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines …

ethnic fragmentation as a main driver of political and social friction in Africa, the paper further details the construction …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … across the household wealth and consumption distributions. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished …

treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women … health in sub-Saharan Africa are surmountable …

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa … women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid … status of women, pro-natalist policies, poverty itself, and social institutions. There remains, however, a large degree of …

declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women … is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further …Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …