Women's Employment and its Relation to Children's Health and Schooling in Developing Countries: Conceptual Links, Empirical Evidence, and Policies

This paper reviews several decades of empirical research on the effects of women’s work on investments in children’s human,capital—their nutrition and schooling—in developing countries. No clear relationship between women’s work and nutrition emerges from a large body of studies examining this issue, but this is to be expected given the complexity of the relationship and the wide variation in methodological approaches. However, specific factors, such as quality of substitute care and age of the child, condition the relationship and point to areas where policy