The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality...
This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent...
Child labor and development : an introduction, by Kaushik Basu and Zafiris Tzannatos. The global child labor problem : what do we know and what can we do, by Kaushik Basu and Zafiris Tzannatos. Child labor...
This paper investigates the hypothesis that children work because their income contribution is necessary for the household to meet subsistence expenditures. It uses the fact that a testable implication...