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Subsidy to Promote Girls' Secondary Education: The Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur; Pitt, Mark; Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534279
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The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790313
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Gender Bias Among Children in India in their Diet and Immunisation Against Disease
Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541479
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The distributive consequuences of machismo: A simulation analysis of intrahousehold allocation
Cuesta, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836291
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957149
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260187
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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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Gender and corruption in business
Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert; McNulty, Gemma; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Are women less corrupt in business? We revisit this question using firm-level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys, which measure firms’ experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in positions of influence are associated with less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266239
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535440