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Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India
Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
modernization and development such as urbanisation, poverty reduction, and male literacy bear no significant association with … fertility. En passant, we probe a subject of much confusion - the relation between fertility decline and gender bias. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745825
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes
Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight from the causal effect. We find that, despite a detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745418
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Challenges for research on resource-rich economies
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
The scope for economic research on resource-rich countries has widened considerably over the past two decades. While examination of market-based channels mechanisms (such as spending effects and exchange-rate appreciation) and resource price volatility are still important, other issues are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126509
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Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?
Fankhauser, Samuel; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Poor countries are more heavily affected by extreme weather events and future climate change than rich countries. One of the reasons for this is the so-called adaptation deficit, that is, limits in the ability of poorer countries to adapt. This paper analyses the link between income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126706
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has fallen in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the “very unhappy” and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126047
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Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents
Wekesa, Eliud; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Objectives: To characterise the experiences of heterosexual men and women living with HIV post-diagnosis and explain these experiences in relation to their identity and sexuality. Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and theoretically informed biographic disruption theory....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126336
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Is child work necessary?
Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744915
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Giving a little help to girls? evidence on grade discrimination and its effect on students' achievement
Terrier, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266091
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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?
Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746292
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Gender and the labor market: what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126362