increased educational attainment and that an increase in education has changed women's preferences. An increase in schooling …, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

positive economic impact and the belief that they empower women. However, only a few studies rigorously examine the link … between microfinance and women's empowerment. This paper contributes by arguing that women empowerment takes place when women … of the Self Help Group (SHG) on women empowerment for 2000 and 2003. The results strongly demonstrate that on average …

, behavioural changes, education and networking, communication and political participation and awareness) are measured using …Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

overall improvement in the health at birth (as measured by the low birth weight indicator) of the cohorts exposed to the shock …. Moreover, we find significant improvements in health at birth exclusively for boys and not for girls. This effect seems to be … fetuses and, as a result of this selection in utero, at birth, one should observe significant improvements in health outcomes …

' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …-educated mothers, a result that is robust to a number of different specifications. We find no corresponding heterogeneity relative to …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …