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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Gender is a common term where as gender discrimination is meant only for women, because females are the only victims of … gender discrimination. Females are nearly 50 percent of the total population but their representation in public life is very … paper deals with gender discrimination in India, its various forms and causes. Importance of women in devleopment …
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Urbanization -as a worldwide pheonemenon- has increased its pace especially in the twentieth century in all over the World. Turkey is no exception of this process. In Turkey, urbanization has been accelerated since 1950 and it still carries on by increasing its speed. While only 25% of the...
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We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion externality. Medical innovations that facilitate...
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In examining child work and education in rural India, I find that Parental education and hours of non household child work demonstrate a U shaped relationship. I contend this is due to weak labor markets for skilled workers in rural India that creates a “high education trap.” This results in...
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The reverse regression method of measuring wage discrimination is the main challenge to the dominant direct regression method based on the Oaxaca/Blinder approach. In this article, it is argued that the choice between the two methods is fundamentally a choice of assumptions regarding the nature...
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contrast the results obtained with the gender discrimination theory. The estimation reflect a behavior of gender discrimination …
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This paper focuses on theoretical issues of gender related to household decision making and examines its empirical … likely to indicate gender discrimination in the intra occupational labour market in which both men and women of a household …
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use this game in a laboratory experiment to investigate gender specific allocation behaviour and discrimination. We … observe that dictators treat females nicer than males independent of their own gender. Participants are not aware of their …
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The study investigates the role of social-political institutions on gender discrimination and female employment in five …
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