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Gender gaps in PISA test scores : the impact of social norms and the mother's transmission of role attitudes

González de San Román, Ainara; Rica, Sara de la - 2012

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten years reveals that on average female students underperform...

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The gender of debt and credit: insights from Rural Tamil Nadu

Guérin, Isabelle; Nordman, Christophe J.; Reboul, Elena - 2020

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This...

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Empowering the vulnerable to be entrepreneurs : an empirical test on the effectiveness of the Ghana microfinance policy 2006

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016

The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit …

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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India, economic shocks are expected to have disparate...

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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India

Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020

programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …

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What determines women's labor supply? : the role of home productivity and social norms

Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2019

We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United Kingdom, U.K.). We construct a model...

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Gender norms and the motherhood penalty : experimental evidence from India

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Majilla, Tanmoy; Rieger, Matthias - 2018

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market. We randomly reported motherhood on fictitious CVs sent to service sector job openings. We generated exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling...

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Women's work, social norms and the marriage market

Afridi, Farzana; Arora, Abhishek; Dhar, Diva; Mahajan, … - 2023

While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage. We conduct an experiment on an online marriage market...

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Is rationing in the microfinance sector determined by the microfinance type? : evidence from Ghana

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2015

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin-American families : the importance of social norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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