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juxtaposition of water infrastructure and gender differences at the household level. We use spatiotemporal data from the largest … gender disaggregated human development survey in India (2005-2012) and carry out econometric analyses using individual fixed … piped drinking water (IPDW) on employment and earnings by gender, the self-reported health of women, the prevalence of …
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The objective of this study is to explore the gender dynamics of globalization and human development at the individual … regards the gender perspective, the effect of environmental globalization on human development is stronger for females than … education and healthcare facilities, as well as employment opportunities in a more inclusive way to these sections to improve …
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This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
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This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the …
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The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …
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nexus between infrastructure and certain types of poverty outcomes such as income, poverty, health, education, and other …
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-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …
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serostatus, as HIV-positive women were significantly (p<0.001) more likely to have a low level of education than their HIV …. Moreover, female participants with low levels of education were 2.26 times as likely to be HIV infected, compared to those who … had attended secondary or higher education institutions (OR=2.27, CI=1.40 - 3.68). Results illustrate that Indian women …
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Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or responding to material incentives. A first implication...
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inventories to collect gender-disaggregated data to advise policy on which sectors hinder women's participation as well as a new …
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