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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'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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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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The Right to Education Act : Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality
Shah, Manisha - 2019
The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6 …
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Can Greater Access to Education Be Inequitable? New Evidence from India's Right to Education Act
Chatterjee, Chirantan; Hanushek, Eric A.; Mahendiran, … - 2022
India moved to a constitutional guarantee of universal basic education with the Right to Education (RTE) Act in 2009 …
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan - 2015
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
Pratham's “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …
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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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Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria
Osili, Una Okonkwo - 2010
The literature generally points to a negative relationship between female education and fertility. Citing this pattern, policymakers have advocated educating girls and young women as a means to reduce population growth and foster sustained economic and social welfare in developing countries....
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …
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