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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia … gender and ethnicity confers cumulative disadvantage for minority groups, especially in Latin America. The paper discusses … estimation method analogous to difference-in-differences, the paper finds that gender-based differences in literacy, primary …
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We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnicity … distribution of African ethnicities before colonization and exploit within ethnicity (across countries) and within-country (across …. However, our ethnicity fixed-effects specifications show that differences in countrywide institutional arrangements do not …
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We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...
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More than 100 million women and girls in the world have had their genitals cut for cultural, religious, or other non-medical reasons. Even though international organizations condemn female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, as a violation of human rights, and most nations have banned it, it...
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considerably longer to enter into white-collar and waged work. This led to increased gender inequality during the first half of the …, informal economy were less well educated, less frequently employed in formal work, and more often subjected to marital gender … from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …
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Using a partially constructed panel database of 48 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2013, this paper analyzes the structure of housing finance in Africa, its determinants, and its impact on inclusive growth. The findings show that market capitalization and urbanization are key positive...
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