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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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We carry out a randomized control trial to test for interaction effects between training state-employed caregivers and providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise...
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Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises. Using a field experiment involving agricultural...
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average, respectively. We test the added-worker effect theory - which posits that violence might increase FLFP as women try to … make up for lost household income - and find mixed evidence: greater prevalence of attacks may encourage married women to … exert more working hours, but when the environment gets more risky as number of dead and wounded people increase, all women …
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2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the gender … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …
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power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and … cross-context mixtures will display a wide variety of shapes. -- Wage-setter ; power ; consensus ; independence of mind …
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five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces -- justice, status, and power -- and the subsequent …
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This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
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We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …
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We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not … time. -- family economics ; intra-household decision power ; gender differences …
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