ECON 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: James Wolfensohn, Maternal Death, Microcredit
23 Jun 2017
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Micro-credit schemes, for example, have been directed almost exclusively at women, because, it is argued, women invest. Former world bank president, james wolfensohn, addressing the fourth un convergence on women, said. Education for girls has a catalytic effect on every dimension of development. A substantial literature has studied these issues and found clear evidence of a correlation between mother"s education and earnings, and child welfare, particularly child health. Found that children are in better health if their mother brought more resources into the marriage. When squatters in peru were given a property title for their land, fertility declined, but only in areas where property rights were given with both the woman"s and man"s name on the title. Fundamental problems with the interpretation of the results. A women"s education may be correlated with unobserved dimensions of her ability, family, or community background.
