• Education
• Educational policies
• Employment
• Female Fertility
• Gender Inequalities

The importance of women's education as a tool for social progress has found ample confirmation in the numerous empirical surveys that have highlighted a positive correlation between the mother's educational level, schooling rate and children's health status and the benefits produced in terms of rate reduction of fertility and infant mortality; microeconomic evidence has also shown that an increase in the income available to the mother has a greater impact on the nutritional status and educational level of children than an increase of the same size in paternal income.
The reduction of the gender educational gap was considered a necessary condition to start a sustainable development process and a variable of female human capital was included in endogenous growth models with the expectation of estimating a positive sign of the coefficient; contradictory results with respect to forecasts have been interpreted as econometric "puzzling funding" and have not weakened the belief in the importance of female education.