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We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...
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-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any … evidence that women are riskier then men. The male/female differential remains even after controlling for a large number of … characteristics of the type of business, the borrower and the market structure of the credit market. The result is not driven by women …
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: market vendors (who are mostly women) and men working as bicycle-taxi drivers. Despite large withdrawal fees, a substantial … share of market women used the accounts, were able to save more, and increased their productive investment and private … market women in our study context. Further work is needed to understand what those barriers are, and to test whether the …
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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …
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It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
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relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …
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(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …
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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 economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …
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countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …
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