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The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries

Heath, Rachel - 2016

Two important recent trends in most developing countries have are the rise in female labor force participation and the closing of gender gaps in school enrollment. This article begins by exploring the causes of the increases in female education, which include greater job availability and policy...

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

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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The Value of Mandating Maternal Education in a Developing Country

Dursun, Bahadir - 2017

While several studies estimate the impact of maternal education on birth weight and child mortality using quasi-experimental identification strategies in developing countries, the state of the literature on the causal relationship between maternal education and child health is far from being...

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Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Power

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Millions of women continue to die during and soon after childbirth, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid this are available. We posit that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the timing of gender quota legislation across developing countries, we...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

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Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum

Caunedo, Julieta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Technology is the driver of labor allocation across sectors and occupations. Is the impact of technological change on developing countries similar to its impact on developed countries? Will developing countries follow the same development path that developed economies have taken? Our approach...

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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995

Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...

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Sources and Transmission of Country Risk

Hassan, Tarek A.; Schreger, Jesse; Schwedeler, Markus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use textual analysis of earnings conference calls held by listed firms around the world to measure the amount of …

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Dynamic Adjustment and the Demand for International Reserves

Bilson, John F. O. - 1979

greater exchange rate flexibility has not significantly altered the reserve holding behavior of the world's central banks …

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