The authors summarize the main lessons emerging from Argentina's experience, including universal service obligations in … delegated to private operators. After reporting on Argentina's experience, the authors suggest some guidelines: 1) Anticipate …

traditional social institutions with negative effects on adult women's health and well-being. Using individual-level data for … Nigeria, the paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons, women with first-born daughters have (and desire) more … children and are less likely to use contraceptives. Women with daughters among earlier-born children are also more likely to …

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have … suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means … for women's nutritional status are compared by marital status across 20 countries. Overall, the results indicate …