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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India
López Bóo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775112
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744667
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777152
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M.R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403402
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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265668
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal … gender of the previous child in three states, in a direction consistent with son-preference. Comparison of other covariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233756
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Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030895
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700920
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
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