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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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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 … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458703
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459183
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459342
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More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying : The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan
Lin, Ming-Jen - 2008
This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the...
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Female Socialization : How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues
Washington, Ebonya - 2006
Economists have long concerned themselves with environmental influences, such as neighborhood, peers and family on individuals' beliefs and behaviors. However, the impact of children on parents' behavior has been little studied. Parenting daughters, psychologists have shown, increases feminist...
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Immunization and Moral Hazard : The HPV Vaccine and Uptake of Cancer Screening
Moghtaderi, Ali - 2016
potentially precancerous and cancerous process. It is strongly recommended for women between 21-65 years old even after taking the … health intervention. The HPV vaccination is recommended for women age eleven to twelve for regular vaccination or for women … alternative specifications and subsamples are in general agreement. The estimates show that women who have been vaccinated are …
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Bride Price and Female Education
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
the effects of school construction on girls' education vary with a widely-practiced marriage custom called bride price … discernible effect on the education of girls from groups without bride price, it had large positive effects for girls from groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456260
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456915
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Municipal Housekeeping : The Impact of Women's Suffrage on Public Education
Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2015
result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …
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