Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …

countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment … several specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies aimed … at dismantling these cultural barriers to female employment and the impacts they have …

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …

marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment …

of a particular microfinance institution (Spandana) while the remainder were not, although other MFIs were free to enter …. We found no changes in any of the development outcomes that are often believed to be affected by microfinance, including …

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate …

This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups …