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The economics of consanguineous marriages
Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Iyer, Sriya; Joshi, Shareen - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003421076
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508958
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Assortative matching in Africa : evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi
Boxho, Claire; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113697
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Saving for dowry : evidence from rural India
Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2020
The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary … 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the … prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390589
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Big sisters
Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; Fernald, Lia C. H.; … - 2020
childhood development in a sample of rural Kenyan households with otherwise similar family structures. Older sibling gender is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390590
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Intimate partner violence : the influence of job opportunities for men and women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Kambhampati, Uma S.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2020
This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228396
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Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature
Roy, Sanchari - 2019
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004791
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Desired fertility and the impact of population policies
Pritchett, Lant; Summers, Lawrence Henry - 1994
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Development, modernization and son preference in fertility decisions
Filmer, Deon (contributor); Friedman, Jed (contributor);  … - 2008
"A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse … developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758849
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Intrahousehold inequality and child gender bias in Ethiopia
Koohi-Kamali, Feridoon (contributor) - 2008
"The Rothbarth model of intrahousehold resource allocation has consistently failed to detect child gender bias in many applications over the past two decades. This paper challenges the current consensus that the Rothbarth method is not effective in revealing child gender bias from consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771163