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physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …
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ratios and reduces famine's impact on gender inequality in health and education. … 1959-1961 on gender inequality. We model how social norms interact with adverse shocks to affect male and female survival …
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
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technical and vocational education and training (TVET) for grade 12 students and science, technology, engineering, and … mathematics (STEM) education systems for grade 10 students; labor market outcomes; and mentors' experiences in each field. Despite …
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changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
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assess determinants of student performance during the coronavirus pandemic in Bhutan. Gender gaps, urban-rural gaps, and … socioeconomic gaps do not appear to have widened substantially after the pandemic-related closure. Student characteristics (gender …, access to a computer at home) and school characteristics (boarding facilities, urban location, class size, computers) predict …
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This systematic review covers 56 studies that measure the effects of school closures on learning outcomes during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and 20 studies that evaluate the impact of measures to reduce learning loss. It restricts attention to evaluations with credible control...
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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
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education is not sufficient to achieve gender wage parity. Higher-paying jobs should be created by developing the service sector …This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry aggregated panel … the gender wage gap regardless of a country's development stage. While having more children widens the gender wage gap, as …
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, the gender difference is reversed in Viet Nam where stigma and discrimination associated with some diseases may more …. However, for the subsample of elders, the gender difference is not significant. …
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