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Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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Leveling the intra-household playing field : compensation and specialization in child labor allocation

Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Macours, Karen - 2009

"This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for some of the intra-household differences,...

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Water hauling and girls' school attendance : some new evidence from Ghana

Nauges, Céline; Strand, Jon - 2013

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Marketing externalities and market development

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2002

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Gender differences in time use : allocating time between the market and the household

Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana; Viollaz, Mariana - 2019

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time...

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Free primary education, fertility, and women’s access to the labor market : evidence from Ethiopia

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2020

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans

Trako, Iva - 2019

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …

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Education, externalities, fertility, and economic growth

Weale, Martin - 1992

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How access to contraception affects fertility and contraceptive use in Tunisia

Cochrane, Susan; Guilkey, David K. - 1992

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