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This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...
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is to: 'eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. In this … ending child marriage. The authors begin by setting out the current context presenting data on child marriage and its impacts … for Development Initiative (ID4D) dataset. The authors turn next to the link between birth registration and child marriage …
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Following decades of sustained economic growth during which Uganda made dramatic progresstowards poverty reduction, the country has recently experienced a period of economic growthslow down. To return to higher rates of economic growth and poverty reduction, the Government mustaddress...
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strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies. Improving girls' education is also a priority of the government …. Unfortunately, the cultural, economic, and social conditions that have historically contributed to child marriage, early …
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indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …
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Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural...
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This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of...
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This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and … socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and …
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behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …
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The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary … 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the … prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher …
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