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measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat …
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for both men and women. Response by proxy rather than self-report yields lower male labor force participation, lower …
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This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct their answers. We test whether respondents interpret question wording as researchers intend and...
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Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire modules vary across countries and within countries over time along several dimensions,...
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primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. …
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measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in …
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ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...
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opportunity to even have an interview in 28 percent of cases, and when a job offer was received, rejected this offer or quickly …
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