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Reversal of gender gaps in child development: Evidence from young children in India
Lopez Boo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 55-59
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...
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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
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Charitable giving in married couples : untangling the effects of education and income on spouses' giving
Mesch, Debra J.; Osili, Una Okonkwo; Dale, Elizabeth J.; … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly : journal of … 51 (2022) 2, pp. 444-458
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Education and income attraction : an online dating field experiment
Ong, David - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 19/21, pp. 1816-1830
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
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Whose education matters? : an analysis of inter caste marriages in India
Ray, Tridip; Roy Chaudhuri, Arka; Sahai, Komal - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 176 (2020), pp. 619-633
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The Importance of Spousal Education for the Self-Rated Health of Married Adults in the United States
Brown, Dustin; Hummer, Robert; Hayward, Mark - In: Population Research and Policy Review 33 (2014) 1, pp. 127-151
education and spousal education combine to influence self-rated health within marriage. The results highlight the importance of …Education’s benefits for individuals’ health are well documented, but it is unclear whether health benefits also accrue … from the education of others in important social relationships. We assess the extent to which individuals’ own education …
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GENDER, EDUCATION, FAMILY STRUCTURE, AND THE ALLOCATION OF LABOR IN IRAN
ESFAHANI, HADI SALEHI; SHAJARI, PARASTOO - In: Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ) 04 (2012) 02, pp. 1250008-1
sample derived from Iran's 2006 census and employing IV Probit and multinomial Logit models, we examine the role of education … of education, on the other hand, accounts for about 10% of the rise. The limited role of education is partly due to the … returns to their education. Alleviating this jobs constraint may allow the role of education to rise two to three times. In …
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Education and Inequality
Machin, Stephen - In: The Oxford handbook of economic inequality. 2012
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Beyond girls' education : pathways to women's post-marital education in Matlab, Bangladesh
Chan, Kiera; Miedema, Stephanie Spaid; Naved, Ruchira … - In: Feminist economics 29 (2023) 1, pp. 38-69
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