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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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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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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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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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Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017

Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...

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Maternal mortality and women's political participation

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...

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Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans

Bridgman, Grace - 2020

Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a wellestablished constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the relative contributions of household resources and public service delivery in reducing the orphan-stunting...

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Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador

Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and strengthened educational curriculum of 2010 provides a...

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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization

Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Our work varies from conventional impact evaluation studies because of the inclusion of two post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's...

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