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networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for … whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold constraints. Enabling women to jointly visit a clinic with other women not …. Moreover, this intervention was more effective in improving reproductive autonomy of women who faced greater intrahousehold …
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We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they … women's modern contraceptive use - resulting from improvements in public provision of health services in exposed districts …
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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across...
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Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than …
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Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …
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This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline industrial composition. On average, the increase in...
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the likelihood of women being elected to state legislatures in India. We show that the program increased voter … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
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