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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...

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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 …

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Offline social identity and online chat partner selection

Helsper, Ellen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

-efficacy differed significantly between boys and girls when youth and gender identities were emphasized but not when stressing personal …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …

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Continuity and change in pathways to young adult disadvantage: results from a British birth cohort

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

A life-course account of the pathways to adult social exclusion for children born in 1958 is explored. We identify the pervasive childhood factors, associated with a wide range of adult disadvantage, and specific life-course domain antecedents. Childhood disadvantage has more powerful legacies...

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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....

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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 …

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The creation of UN Women

Charlesworth, Hilary; Chinkin, Christine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women … and has been styled as the new UN “gender architecture.” In this article we consider the implications of this new …

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Women in politics: evidence from the Indian states

Clots-Figueras, Irma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators make different decisions than men legislators....

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Only the lonely?: the influence of spouse on the transition to self-employment

Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

partner influences under these contexts. It argues that the interaction between gender and relationship status implies …

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