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power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and …
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ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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We carry out a randomized control trial to test for interaction effects between training state-employed caregivers and providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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average, respectively. We test the added-worker effect theory - which posits that violence might increase FLFP as women try to … make up for lost household income - and find mixed evidence: greater prevalence of attacks may encourage married women to … exert more working hours, but when the environment gets more risky as number of dead and wounded people increase, all women …
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2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the gender … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are...
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Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises. Using a field experiment involving agricultural...
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