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Does it matter who you ask for time-use data?
Sharma, Deepti; Swaminathan, Hema; Lahoti, Rahul - 2024
Time-use statistics are sensitive to measurement error, especially errors that might be introduced based on whether the informant is reporting on herself or reporting on others in the household. In this paper, we use the nationally representative time-use survey in India and propensity score...
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South: A comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; de Mahieu, Antoine; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …
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Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla; Bernigaud, Alexis - 2022
grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … families as an instrument for gender-responsive social protection expansion. The simulation findings indicate that introducing …
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico: Supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as … well as how gender norms differ substantially across societies at the same level of economic development. I then discuss in … more detail specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies …
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The gendered crisis: Livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2021
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings...
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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are considered. Results show that boys' enrolment increases in all four scenarios …
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Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943843
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Schooling and Labour Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto
Canelas, Carla - 2018
In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923383