-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …

of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation …I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes … technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child health development with perceptions of women regarding wife …

I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes … of their children using micro data from Ghana. Using the 2SLS-IV estimation technique, I build a model of household … bargaining and child health development with perceptions of women regarding wife-beating and marital rape in the existence of …