adult mortality is higher for women with first-born girls, especially the poor and uneducated with limited access to health … care and prenatal sex diagnostic technologies. To ensure the desired sex composition of children, these women resort to a ….2-8.4 percent of women with first-born girls are 'missing' because of son preference between the ages of 30 and 49 …

' wages affect older children's school enrollment, but these factors affect boys' and girls' schooling differently. An … million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child …' behavior in Kenya. For households with children aged three to seven, they model household demand for mothers' participation in …

disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other … fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the … that more than 9,600 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola Virus Disease. The absolute numbers of orphans created …

expectations of female vocational students in Haryana, India. Exposure to the pandemic lowered young women's wage aspirations and … market. This study examines whether exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the labor market aspirations and … made them more realistic, especially in rural areas. A potential mechanism for these effects was the decline in rural women …

contain pandemic influenza outbreaks where they occur, for viral strains of moderate infectiousness. For viral strains of … higher infectiousness, containment may be difficult, but it may be possible to mitigate the effects of the spread of pandemic … interventions in the U.S. and U.K. after a global pandemic starts, there is a basis for arguing that the emphasis in the secondary …

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pandemic. This paper presents the results of a set of surveys covering 19 partial credit guarantees in 12 countries in the … Latin America region, which were repeated at different stages of the pandemic crisis. The paper finds that most partial …. Moreover, the response to the pandemic shows that most partial credit guarantees in the region have made limited use of the …

Collective action by women's networks has been a strong driver of legislative change in many countries across the world …. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the … national court system. In 1992, women's legal networks in the Unity Dow case successfully challenged discriminatory statutory …

children and women over the age of 50 is positively associated with women's employment. These results show that the care of … young children is an increasingly important issue in women's employment decisions, in a context where formal childcare is … transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in …