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Secondary school enrollment rates in the developing countries are usually lower for girls than boys, especially in rural areas. In the mid 1990’s a female school stipend program was introduced to subsidize girls’ secondary education in rural Bangladesh. Although all of rural Bangladesh was...
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-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total income and sex-specific income on sex ratios of surviving children. The … survival rates for girls. Moreover, increasing the mother's income increases educational attainment for all children, while …
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number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … this is not the case. Comparing completed fertility by birth cohorts, we find that on average men have more children than … women in four out of the six countries we consider. The gaps are large – reaching up to 4.6 children in Burkina Faso for the …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labour force participation of females...
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-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …
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Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours … satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they …
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This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite...
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This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …
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Empirical evidence questions the unitary allocation model of the household that underpins the standard measurement of monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions, nutrition status, and human capital accumulation of...
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The demographic transition changes the age composition of a population, affecting resource allocations at the household and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the entire population, they might suggest how the demographic...
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