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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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participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India, and Pakistan to … points, on average. Violence has less impact on male labor participation, thus widening the gender labor participation gap … average, respectively. We test the added-worker effect theory - which posits that violence might increase FLFP as women try to …
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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 … from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we focus exclusively on the self-employment participation among south Asian … participation in self-employment by the citizen immigrants and the difference with immigrant non-citizen group becomes statistically …
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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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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and … from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we focus exclusively on the self-employment participation among south Asian … participation in self-employment by the citizen immigrants and the difference with immigrant non-citizen group becomes statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884310
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604102
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564688