Women Empowerment & Child Health in Developing Countries (CONTINUATION)

赋予妇女权力

• 批准号: 7142050
• 负责人: ESTHER DUFLO
• 金额: $ 28.84万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-28 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7142050
• 关键词: Africa; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); age at pregnancy; child (0-11); clinical research; education; education cost /financing; elementary school; female; fertility; health; health care policy; health disparity; human subject; interview; leadership; nutrition; politics; pregnancy; questionnaires; sex behavior; water quality; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this project is to further explore the role of women's empowerment on child health in developing countries. The project will use comparable methods to investigate the effect on fertility and child health of two policies meant to empower women: mandated political representation and female education. Specifically, the project has three aims. 1. To study the impacts of women's political participation on child health and to study the channels through which it affects child health. 2. To study whether reducing the cost of primary and secondary education can have a significant impact on girls' school participation and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa. 3. To study whether reducing the cost of education on for girls in Kenya can affect rates of early pregnancy and overall fertility.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目的是进一步探索发展中国家妇女权能对儿童健康的作用。该项目将使用可比的方法来调查旨在赋予妇女权力的两项政策的生育能力和儿童健康的影响：强制性的政治代表和女性教育。具体而言，该项目具有三个目标。 1。研究妇女政治参与对儿童健康的影响，并研究影响儿童健康的渠道。 2。研究降低中学和中等教育的成本是否会对撒哈拉以南非洲地区的女孩的学校参与和表现产生重大影响。 3。研究降低肯尼亚女孩的教育成本是否会影响早期怀孕和整体生育率。