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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …

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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Duflo, Esther - 2012

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...

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Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral Stem Programs

Bostwick, Valerie - 2018

We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering...

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Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics

Neumark, David; Gardecki, Rosella - 2021

One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring relationships between these students and female faculty members. Increased hiring of female faculty is viewed as one way to promote such mentoring relationships, perhaps because of...

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Votes for Women : An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement

Moehling, Carolyn M. - 2020

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an...

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Empowering Women : The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Andalon, Mabel - 2014

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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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...

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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …

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Fertility Decline and Missing Women

Jayachandran, Seema - 2014

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …

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Suicide and Property Rights in India

Anderson, Siwan - 2014

This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level … more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …

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