Description:
The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing countries and on the impact that gender inequalities have on development. The first chapter investigates the impact of gender bias in education and employment on economic 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 India in the past decades has reflected in a decline in health care utilization disparities between girls and boys. Finally the essay in chapter four investigates how intra-household gender-discrimination in receipt of medical attention can be one of the most important factors explaining the unbalanced sex ratio in the country.