have on development. The first chapter investigates the impact of gender bias in education and employment on economic … against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing countries and on the impact that gender inequalities … growth in developing countries. The second chapter investigates the microeconomic determinants of child mortality in India …

of their children on their family farms, accompanied by an education intervention aimed to improve the quality of schools … measures to improve the quality of education in Peru, we see a reduction in hazardous child labor and child labor overall … had an effect in the reduction of child labor, and these effects were reinforced by education interventions. Results …

Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu …