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may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …
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and age groups. Effects for women in same-sex couples and men in different-sex couples are smaller than the associated …
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This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle-school increased in the short term by...
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This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women … contribution, which led to sharply different slopes of benefits for similar women to the left and to the right of the kink point … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade …
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I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension …, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar women on either side of the kink point. I find that a 100 euro …
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While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …
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," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for … understand the likelihood of women migrating if they participate in a CCT program, issues of selectivity, endogeneity, and … contemplating migration encourages women to accept CCT. And if a household perspective is brought to bear, then a household's free …
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prevalence of bride price. Compared to women who experienced the same shock but lived in a province where bride price is … infrequent, such women are also more likely to give birth to their first child before 18 and for those who married religiously …
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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …
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