‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …

framework that will guarantee the attainment of the United Nations millennium development goals(as well as the capacity to live …

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …

How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and …

left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … sons migrate. We further explore the mechanism through which this gender-biased migration effect may arise. Our findings …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic … “Industrious Revolution”: Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy, 1600-1900’ is using marriage and …