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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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explores the nature of time poverty by examining how changes in the prices of the two major staples consumed, matooke and … Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more amenable to deep tillage than clayey soil and therefore...
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gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … explained by social costs emanating from gender norms that constrain women's access to non-farm work opportunities. The results … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural … the gender division of labor in the agricultural sector. We also quantify significant inter-generational effects of this … gender-biased technology adoption. Our results imply that the mechanization of farming has broken deeply rooted gender norms …
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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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gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
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With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and in the world. The rate of female labor participation is especially low in the...
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Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-field experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …
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