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Women's liberation: what's in it for men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015
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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262079
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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004
At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the findings from a growing empirical literature that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261798
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286262
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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268820
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Does the liberalization of trade advance gender equality in schooling and health?
Schultz, T. Paul - 2006
This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268101
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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282126
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The disappearing gender gap: The impact of divorce, wages, and preferences on education choices and women's work
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286870
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The economics and politics of women's rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282336