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Empowering Women : The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception
Andalón, 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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Girl Power : Cash Transfers and Adolescent Welfare. Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Experiment in Malawi
Baird, Sarah J. - 2013
Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in … the empowerment of adolescent girls in Malawi during and immediately after the two-year intervention. We find that the … program, which transferred cash directly to school-age girls as well as their parents, had effects on a broad range of …
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Cycling to School : Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age … increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated …
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The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being
Card, David E.; Domnisoru, Ciprian; Sanders, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
Wang, Shing-Yi - 2019
Combining eight years of panel data with an event study approach, we show that rural Chinese women's labor supply falls for one year following the birth of a daughter before returning to their pre-birth levels. The negative impact of the birth of a son on women's labor supply is much larger in...
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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine : Mainland China and Hong Kong
Almond, Douglas - 2007
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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A signal to end child marriage : theory and experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Buchmann, Nina; Field, Erica Marie; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
experimentally evaluating a financial incentive to delay marriage alongside a girls' empowerment program designed to shift norms. As … predicted, girls eligible for the incentive are 19% less likely to marry underage, as are nonpreferred type women ineligible for …
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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...
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