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among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …
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We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
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experimenting with different reference populations. Empirically we find that the overall ranking of poverty in India does not change …
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longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …
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The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …
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Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...
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), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East …
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This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … economic factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and …
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