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Gender preference at birth: A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions

Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2022

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

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Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria

Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel - 2016

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact female labor force participation might be low in...

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Excess female mortality in Africa

Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...

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Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Edo, María; … - 2021

We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...

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Local crime and early marriage: Evidence from India

Sarkar, Sudipa - 2021

This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early marriage-that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. We hypothesize that parents who perceive themselves to live in a high-crime locality would marry their daughters...

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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania

Opoku, Kwadwo; Mugizi, Francisco M. P.; Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - 2021

This paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey-the Integrated Labour Force Survey-and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men,...

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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India

Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - 2021

The impact of childbirth on the labour market participation of women has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries, constraints on mothers labour market participation and earnings being characterized as the motherhood penalty . In the developing country context, and...

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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India (revised)

Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - 2021

The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty'. This phenomenon is relatively less explored in...

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Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban Mozambique

Bischler, Jana; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jasper, Paul; … - 2022

education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw …

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Health consequences of sterilizations

De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Dumas, Christelle - 2017

One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on 'permanent' contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones. However, little is known about potential adverse effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the...

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