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beneficiary welfare. We provide evidence from the NGO sector in Uganda consistent with our theoretical conclusions. Beneficiaries …
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matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … affects child primary education and in what direction. Using the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011 …
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these configurations. We apply our analysis to a large sample of NGOs from Uganda, and find regulation to be beneficial in …
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Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the theoretical prediction that payment of bride price will be … associated with fewer non-marital sexual relationships for women. The data show a robust association between bride price payment … and lower rates of non-marital sexual relationships for women but not for men. …
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output …
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women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …
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This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
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probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …
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differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings …
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