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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul - 2011
India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps Among Salaried Workers in India
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2015
gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage …
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Those Who Can't Sort, Steal : Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Lawson, Nicholas - 2019
facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking …
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Caste Based Discrimination : Evidence and Policy
Siddique, Zahra - 2021
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India
Zimmermann, Laura - 2011
expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India …
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Remember When it Rained : The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
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Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival : Evidence from Trade Policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …
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Women at the Top in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Sekkat, Khalid - 2015
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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