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account for selection. Our results suggest that women's relative wage offers have increased over this period. However …
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flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models … confirm this assumption: women's employment probability increases by approximately 13 percentage points. Correcting for … selection bias due to the initial employment status of women, we also find significant increases in the probability of non …
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-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …
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In low- and middle-income countries, differences between men and women in their time use patterns represent a major … paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment …. Using georeferenced and longitudinal data, we find that the flood decreased women's time spent on domestic work while …
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This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
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factors are now relatively unimportant in the aggregate, women's work force interruptions and shorter hours remain significant …
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In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...
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entitlements in other OECD countries explains 28-29% of the decrease in US women's labor force participation relative to these … women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals …
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first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … is, women that have been visited by an FP public worker have a higher probability of being employed. Moreover, for rural …
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at the international level, that is, how to invest in women’s rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We … and the women's data set. Our results show that the presence of the mother in the family increases children welfare, in … children have a higher probability to work. -- Child labour ; education ; women's work ; time allocation ; India …
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