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pre-existing trends in empowerment. It is also robust to alternative treatment definitions and confirmed by triple …
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women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …
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Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...
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This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i) domestic physcial and psychological abuse, (ii) low...
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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …
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This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being – solidarity (S) and agency (A) – to be...
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Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase womenââ'¬â"¢s empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention …) increases empowerment through agency and achievements, with no impact on access to resources. We use these interventions to test …
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We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting … evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women’s financial empowerment, increasing their control …
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Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764620
women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720077