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Die Frau auf dem Socialen Gebiete
Stein, Lorenz von - 1880
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The living wage of women workers : a study of incomes and expenditures of 450 women in the city of Boston
Bosworth, Louise Marion - 1911
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Bangladesh; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF. Updated with annual progress reports, they describe the countries macroeconomic, structural, and social...
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Kenya: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Kenya. Kenya’s second …
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"Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya"
LUCAS, ADRIENNE M.; MBITI, ISAAC M. - Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and … - 2014
The most desirable Kenyan secondary schools are elite government schools that admit the best students from across the country. We exploit the random variation generated by the centralized school admissions process in a regression discontinuity design to obtain causal estimates of the effects of...
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Working-Age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya
Yamano, Takashi; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004
school attendance in rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. The paper distinguishes … sites. The evidence indicates that rising AIDS-related adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …
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Financial Literacy and Women: Overcoming the Barriers
Donohue, Melissa A - 2011
Women are facing increasing financial responsibility, while at the same time, the consumer financial world is evolving … accelerating the narrowing of these gaps. The results of the study indicate that the assumption can on longer be made that women … knowledge. This finding may indicate that women have different dispositions regarding how they use the financial resources …
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New century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and The Caribbean
Ñopo, Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank
This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. After this introduction, chapter 2 presents the methodology adopted by the book and the data sources employed. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region,...
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Ability, Schooling Choices and Gender Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence for Chile
Bravo, David; Sanhueza, Claudia; Urzúa, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper analyzes gender differences in the Chilean labor market, formally addressing the selection of individuals into schooling levels and its impact on gender gaps. The paper utilizes a new and rich data set containing information on labor market outcomes, schooling attainment and schooling...
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Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004
Lopez Boo, Florencia; Asadullah, Mohammed Niaz; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This study documents the size and nature of boy-girl and Hindu-Muslim gaps in childrens school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the Hindu-Muslim...
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