Women’s empowerment has been identified as a prerequisite for poverty reduction. In addition to driving overall … economic growth, women’s empowerment has been found to have beneficial effects on fertility rates, child health and education … outcomes, as well as community development. This thesis aims to explore various factors that foster women’s empowerment, as …

the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms through which inequality between men and women affects the aggregate … economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

In our study, we attempt to discuss women’s empowerment in three different essays. In the first essay, we discuss how … agricultural output. Scope of this research falls in the general category of household and community level factors affecting women …’s empowerment. In the second and third essay discuss aspects of participatory development in India in areas ranging from community …

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 …

Livestock has been hypothesized to be one of the major buffer stocks for consumption smoothing in rural areas of … mainland rural Tanzania. Results indicate that solar adoption is higher for livestock owners than non-livestock owners and that … middle-expenditure levels. We argue that poor families tend to keep small livestock, which may not generate enough income for …