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Female headship, poverty and child welfare: A study of rural orissa, India

Panda, Pradeep Kumar - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 1997

explores the relative well-being of the children between the two groups, i.e., to what extent female headship influences … children's access to social services, and children's actual welfare outcomes, measured in terms of health and education …, the findings show that children in female-headed households are disadvantaged both in terms of access to social services …

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

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Socio-Economic and demographic consequences of migration in Kerala

Zachariah, K.C.; Mathew, E.T.; Rajan, S. Irudaya - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2000

Migration has been the single most dynamic factor in the otherwise dreary development scenario of Kerala in the last quarter of the past century. Migration has contributed more to poverty alleviation and reduction in unemployment in Kerala than any other factor. As a result of migration, the...

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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...

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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010

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Are Business Cycles Gender Neutral?

Razzu, Giovanni; Singleton, Carl - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013

We study the relationship between business cycles and gender employment rate gaps in the UK over the last four decades, on which there is surprisingly limited evidence. An analysis of employment rates as opposed to unemployment accounts for the greater tendency of women to move in and out of...

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Gender Bias in Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance

Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013

We analyze, in a model of occupational choice in the labour market and discrimination in the capital market, the relationship between the gender of the owner and of the top manager of a firm, access to finance, and this firm's performance. Occupational choice serves as the link from the capital...

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Is the willingness to take financial risk a sex-linked trait? Evidence from national surveys of household finance

Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

We investigate whether the willingness to take investment risk is a sex-linked trait and link the results to the country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on self-reported risk tolerance for Austria, Italy, the...

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Gender and the Business Cycle: A Stocks and Flows Analysis of US and UK Labour Market States

Razzu, Giovanni; Singleton, Carl - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2014

In this paper we combine an analysis of all labour market stocks and flows to assess gender gaps during periods of economic recessions and booms in oth the US and the UK. Starting from an improved understanding of the relationship between gender and the business cycle, we analyse three important...

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