members may affect girls' and young women’s education: relaxation of budget constraints, increase in household work, change in …We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … improves school attendance of young and teenage girls, but reduces school attendance of young women (ages 18-22). We also find …

developing economies. -- elites ; higher education ; women ; development ; economic history ; families … to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into …

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … up to age 25. Multilevel survival analysis shows that girls have higher probability of remaining in school at all grades … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …

This project aims to explore the effect of wealth shocks on education and marriage for young women in Pakistan … and into marriage are estimated for boys and girls in rural areas. Second, the returns to education in the marriage market …. Financial shocks are used to estimate the probability of dropping out of education and into marriage. Using the Pakistan Rural …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …

Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on … women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data … planning and reproductive health. The econometric results suggest that official development assistance ... to women' equality …