We conduct a synthetic review of the literature examining relationships between domains of women’s empowerment and food system outcomes. Many studies report significant positive associations between women’s empowerment and intrahousehold gender equality with child dietary and nutrition...

Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...

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...

Using an innovative data-set that involved 90 poor women logging-in daily household financial diaries for a period of eleven months in 2008-09 in the town of Ramanagaram, Karnataka, India; we address the following question – do women use money differently from men? Comparing weekly...