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This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...
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In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …
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sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …
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characteristics, parental background, and village characteristics. Therefore policies that reduce household poverty are likely to …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …
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This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may …
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measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …
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