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Expanding social protection in developing countries: A gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013
opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318669
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF policy
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2023
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540940
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Peer Gender and Mental Health
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando - 2021
mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208876
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Relative income, the breadwinner norm, and mental health in couples
Getik, Demid - 2022
The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing in many countries. In this paper, I investigate how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental health is positively associated with own and spousal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318973
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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women
Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011
Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321156
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Women, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Bin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab - 2011
Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286557
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Backlash: Undesirable Effects of Female Economic Empowerment
Ericsson, Sanna - 2020
gender-equal Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208853
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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266534
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When does improving health raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284028
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Small and as productive: Female headed households and the inverse relationship between land size and output in Kenya
wa Githinji, Mwangi; Konstantinidis, Charalampos; … - 2011
rural development policies in addition to land redistribution that would allow female headed households to do at least as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287799