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how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …
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and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender … economic sectors. In the information technology sector, women were 15 percentage points less likely to receive a callback than …
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. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …
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This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the …
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level … drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social inclusion, and to explore policy approaches to improve learning …
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Parenting interventions have the potential to improve early childhood development. Text messages are considered a promising channel to deliver parenting information at large scale. This paper tests whether sending text messages about parenting practices impacts early childhood development....
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documents suggests this technology is a viable alternative for improving sexual education in middle-income countries …This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course …
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the relationships between child stature, mother's years of education, and indicators of early childhood development. The …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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