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over time in the way that gender bias is practiced within the household. In 1995, gender bias occurred through a … independently to completing a given number of years in school. Household fixed effects analysis shows that the observed gender …This paper employs a hurdle model approach to ask whether the extent of gender bias in education expenditure within …
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reduce women's midlife employment but do not appear to affect say in household resource allocation. Women in their forties …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … education spending, compared to household level data. Lastly, household fixed effects analysis shows that the observed gender … biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India. …
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, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … on mother fixed effects to allow for household and mother unobserved heterogeneity. Furthermore, this paper explores the …
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gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look … experience), estimating comparable earnings equations by gender at each point in time. We consider the effects of sample … labor force participation, hours, and earnings that indicate convergence by gender in worklife patterns, but less …
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findings are consistent with the convergence of gender earning gap has occurred mainly due to women's responses to changing …
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Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young women has recently disappeared. We propose that the...
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