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This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …
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urban China in early 2000. We find that there are gender differences in the stock of social capital and returns within the …, which has caused layoffs of urban workers that dramatically changed the state of employment in urban China. One factor in … reflect and cause gender differences. Our original measures of social capital are created with a data set administered in …
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We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective.  In terms of gender inequality …, we find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership …
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This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between boys and girls in rural Sri Lanka.  Contrary to most countries in South Asia a significant bias favouring girls is found in 1990/91 for the 5-9 and 17-19 age groups and in...
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Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid labour are both measured using the 1999/2000 Indian National Sample Survey. Men`s labour-force participation stood at 85% and women`s at 35%. The overall rate of labour force...
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community data to futher our understanding of time use, and how infrastructure impacts on gender disaggregated time poverty …. Using nationally representative from Lesotho we are able to provide unique insights into gender related, formal and informal …
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Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in … estimates consistently reveal a sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women`s education … decomposition of the gender wage gap (into the component `explained` by differing male and female endowments and the residual …
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China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …
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Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making.  China’s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid ‘social instability’.  It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...
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This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …
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