This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their motherś working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the motherś participation and the schooling status of her...

The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...

The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women’s rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the mother´s participation and the schooling status of...

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother's working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the mother's participation and the schooling status of her...

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother’s working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the mother’s participation and the schooling status of...

This paper studies the relationship between mothers’ employment and children’s schooling in India. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a multilevel probit model show that the correlation between mothers’ employment and their children’s schooling is negative....

This paper studies the relation between mothers’ employment and their children’s schooling in India, where a high number of children are not attending school at compulsory school age. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a joint multi-level random effects model show...