We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain … education, and (iii) the transition to sustained growth. The mechanism comprises three components. First, technological progress … daughters' education given its higher return --- due to the initial imbalance --- thus improving gender equality in education …

. Lack of health care, limited access to quality schooling and opportunity cost of participation in education are some of … layers of deprivations that stifle their freedom to actively participate in and benefit from elementary school education … these layers. Human Development Report 2010 using Oxford University's newly developed Multidimensional Poverty Index, adds …

development of new birth control techniques; very pronounced changes in attitudes with respect to desired family size; changes in … related to changes in the economic returns to higher education. The high monetary rewards to further education in the 1950s … returns to education in the 1970s was associated with declining (or more slowly rising) enrollment rates, and rising …

Natural disasters can lead to significant changes in health, economic, and demographic outcomes. However, the …, household socioeconomic status, and parental age and education …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … choices and create a revised research agenda for population and development, this paper aggregates recent quantitative …

domestic work. Education is an equalizer of gender relations, but its effect is framed by gender roles and race. Traditional …