The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated … growth in developing countries. The second chapter investigates the microeconomic determinants of child mortality in India … using a very large and representative dataset. Chapter three investigates how the increased return on investment on women in …

The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government … findings in a literature that has few existing examples that demonstrate similar rigorous evidence on the effects of growth and …