Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in … levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed …

secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age … increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated …