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Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenomenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse.The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan.Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...
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This paper investigates individual motives to participate in rotating savings and credit associations (roscas).Detailed evidence from roscas in a Kenyan slum (Nairobi) suggests that most roscas are predominantly composed of women, particularly those living in a couple and earning an independent...
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opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …
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educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …
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the changes in the unpaid work time reveal that shifts in own and spousal employment status largely account for the gender …
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of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as "work" done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with …. We also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight … from dwelling on the cooperative-conflict type of bargaining concepts either, which are offered in the literature to unfold …
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Using insights from ‘embodied cognition’ and a resulting ‘cognitive theory of the firm’, I aim to contribute to the further development of evolutionary theory of organizations, in the specification of organizations as ‘interactors’ that carry organizational competencies as...
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We develop a revealed preference approach to analyze non-unitary con- sumption models with intrahousehold allocations deviating from the cooper- ative (or Pareto e¢ cient) solution. At a theoretical level, we establish re- vealed preference conditions of household consumption models with...
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We present a household consumption model that accounts for caring house- hold members, while allowing for noncooperative behavior in decisions on pub- lic goods. The intrahousehold consumption outcome critically depends on the degree of caring between the household members. By varying the degree...
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Using insights from 'embodied cognition' and a resulting 'cognitive theory of the firm', I aim to contribute to the further development of evolutionary theory of organizations, in the specification of organizations as 'interactors' that carry organizational competencies as 'replicators', within...
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