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Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Cochrane, Tom - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...

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The Impact of Fathers’ Job Loss during the 1980s Recession on their Child’s Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes

Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsay; Nasim, Bilal - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012

The research on intergenerational correlations in outcomes is increasingly moving from measurement into assessment of causal transmission mechanisms. This paper analyses the causal impact of fathers’ job loss on their children’s educational attainment and later economic outcomes. To do so,...

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Family Income and Education in the Next Generation: Exploring income gradients in education for current cohorts of youth

Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009

The relationship between the incomes of the family a child is growing up in and the education level the child obtains … inequality in its own right and secondly, because the relationship between family income and education is also one of the key … domains. This paper explores the evolution of the relationship between family income and education for a group of cohorts from …

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Health and the Political Agency of Women

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

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Primary Education in India: Prospects of meeting the MDG Target

Bhalotra, Sonia; Zamora, Bernarda - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2008

be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of realising universal primary education by the year 2015. The …

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