At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and...

The second feminist wave in the 1960s has influenced feminists to increase their campaign against patriarchy in almost all areas. This campaign aims to achieve equal legal, political and social rights for women. In this context, they view education as a vehicle to empower women in societies....

We exploit an institutional reduction in the costs of acquiring advanced high school Mathematics to assess the causes and consequences of fewer girls choosing advanced Mathematics. Girls at the top and boys at the middle of the Mathematics-ability-distribution took more Mathematics because of...

We adopt amulti-country setup to showthat years of schooling have a causal protective effect on the body mass index of females living in nine European countries. No such effect is found for males. The protective effect for European females is not negligible but is smaller than one recently found...

This paper investigates the causal link between education and domestic violence incidence through a Regression Discontinuity design, which exploits the 1994 Free Primary Education reform in Malawi. Using data from the 2015-16 of the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, I find that the reform...

We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes,...

The paper investigates the role of mothers in affecting childrens' performance at school. It develops a theoretical model in which household is treated as an individual, whose utility depends on the performance at school of the student and on consumption. The model focuses on the possibilities...

Existing literature has underlined that cultural factors, economic factors, social background, parental status and encouragement and labor market equality influence the female child’s educational aspirations. The present study is an attempt to correlate development indicators for women’s...

The Higher education has largely been kept out of the benevolent support from the government and lesser cost effective. When it comes to Higher education for woman, it becomes even more regressive since it is often been judged in terms of social security, higher opportunity cost and...

Women and men often receive the same percentage increase in their wage rates with advances in schooling. Because these returns decline with more schooling, the marginal returns for women will tend to exceed those for men, especially in countries where women are much less educated. The health and...