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...