This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … reduced fertility. These results are consistent with women having greater control over their fertility decision …

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …

pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …

in the current scenario. According to UNESCO, women empowerment implies developing self-ingenuity among women for change …. Educational attainment and economic involvement are the key elements in ensuring the empowerment of women. Economic empowerment … develops women's capability to impact, transform or form a better nation. Even after seventy years of Independence, India …

to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into … developing economies. -- elites ; higher education ; women ; development ; economic history ; families …