education instead. The theory hence predicts that the social status of the family has a significant impact on educational choice …

marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the … returns to human capital can be decisive in determining the outcome. The model provides a basis for distinguishing development …

in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such …

Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to …

as female education that lead to more progressive attitudes could counterintuitively cause a more male-skewed sex ratio …