effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …

The present dissertation aims to describe three essays related to labor market institutions, growth and gender … determinant for womens welfare. Essay 3 tests the prevailing theme of gender inequality related to test score performance. In some … aim is to look for the role of gender itself and other environmental factors in impacting students performance at the end …

This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals … with social institutions related to gender inequality and proposes new composite indices to measure them. Using these … indices, some interesting empirical connections between social institutions related to gender inequality and several relevant …