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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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Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Lawson, Nicholas; Spears, Dean - 2019
facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking. …
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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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Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2000
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 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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Social divisions in school participation and attainment in India: 1983 - 2004
Asadullah, Niaz; Kambhampati, Uma; López Bóo, Florencia - 2012
attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …
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Health and the political agency of women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …
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Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment
Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2011
Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits the random assignment mechanism in place between...
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