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We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
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Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a school-going girl who lives more than 3 km from the...
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empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their … show an increase in the risk that women experience domestic violence. We then examine forced displacement as a channel and …
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws …
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Woman suffrage led to the greatest enfranchisement in the history of the United States. Before World War I, however … still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the …
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burdens that afflict women in particular. The dissemination of Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an …
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mitigated or exacerbated by other socioeconomic attributes of the individual and the household? The results indicate that women … reach mode allocation decisions, and that women, in particular, stand to benefi t from the maintenance of an effi cient and …
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Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is...
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One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner … (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to … reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural areas, electrification is frequently said to foster women …
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