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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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. Women old enough to have completed secondary school delay both marriage and childbearing …
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We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
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Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory ….) The results show that the reform had a significant impact on middle school completion for both men and women, with … stronger effects on women. An increase in education, generated by exposure to the law, decreases women's propensity to identify …
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Although it is well known that traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, we still have little understanding of what this means for development policy. To improve our understanding of this issue, we examine how the effects of school construction on girls' education...
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the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures …We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of …
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from three waves of a nationally-representative health survey, conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Turkey, and exploit an … instrument for education, we find that for women ages 18-30, education has no impact on self-reported health, BMI, overweight …, obesity, or on the propensity or intensity of smoking. Education does not influence women's daily consumption of fruits …
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women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …
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We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in …
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We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to …
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