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Son preference and children's housework: The case of India
Lin, Tin-chi; Adserà, Alícia - 2012
Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged …
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It's a boy! Women and non-monetary benefits from a son in India
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they derive substantial long-run non-monetary benefits from giving birth to a son in the form of an improvement in their...
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The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
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Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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A parametric analysis of prospect theory's functionals for the general population
Booij, Adam S.; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; van de … - 2009
This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277017
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …
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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities: the role of employment quota
Prakash, Nishith - 2009
exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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