Themanummer met de congrespapers van het gelijknamige congres in Italië, 1992. Bevat de volgende bijdragen : Investments in the schooling and health of women and men/ T.P. Schultz: Women , insurance capital and economic development in India/ M.R. Rosenzweig: Information, learning and wage rates in low-income rural areas/ A.D.Foster en M.R. Rosenzweig: Gender and life-cycle differentials in the patterns and determinants of adult health/ door J. Strauss, P.Gertler, O.Rahman en K.Fox: Quality of medical care and choice of medical treatment in Kenya/ door G.Mwabu, M.Ainsworth en A.Nyamete: daughters. education and family budgets/ door W.L. Parish en R.J. Willis: Gender differences in the returns to schooling and schooling enrollment rates in Indonesia/ door A.B.Deolalikar: Educational investments and returns for women and men in Côte D'ivoire