. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are …

understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …

using cross-sectional household survey data collected in Kenya in 2012. In order to establish causality, our sample was …

The thesis attempts to evaluate three Indian development policies aimed at promoting women and historically … disadvantaged social groups. These policies are: job reservation for women in public workfare programs; women's political …

fertility pressures on women, which favored late female marriages already in the pre-industrial era. The resulting family and … household patterns placed women into a better position to struggle for more gender equality during the subsequent transitions …

, and Southeast Asia, Middle East & North Africa, and Latin America), the effect of women's employment on reported domestic … violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women …, these results turn out to be the opposite, which suggests that women's employment status has a negative influence on …