Women Empowerment & Child Health in Developing Countries (CONTINUATION)

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的目标是进一步探讨妇女赋权对发展中国家儿童健康的作用。该项目将使用可比方法，调查旨在赋予妇女权力的两项政策对生育率和儿童健康的影响：规定的政治代表权和女性教育。具体而言，该项目有三个目标。1.研究妇女参政对儿童健康的影响，并研究妇女参政影响儿童健康的渠道。2.研究降低小学和中学教育费用是否会对撒哈拉以南非洲女孩的入学率和成绩产生重大影响。3.研究降低肯尼亚女孩的教育费用是否会影响早孕率和总体生育率。

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.