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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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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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This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …
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, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment.  These findings …
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In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income.  This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993), Voth (1998, 2000)).  This paper examines this industrious revolution using a model of labour...
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European countries, and shows that accounting for individual heterogeneity is vital for understanding gender differences.  In …
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allocated to market work and non market activities. The effects of children, age, gender and education are largely as expected …
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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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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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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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