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Capability approach to public-space harassment of women: Evidence from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan
Berik, Günseli; Bhattacharya, Haimanti; Singh, Tejinder Pal - 2023
Sexual harassment of women and girls in streets and other public spaces is often trivialized by the label of "eve teasing" in South Asia. While there exists a volume of research on intimate partner or domestic violence in South Asia, the literature on public-space harassment (PSH) is sparse....
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Capability approach to public-space harassment of women: Evidence from India and Bangladesh
Berik, Günseli; Bhattacharya, Haimanti; Singh, Tejinder Pal - 2022
Sexual harassment of women and girls in streets and other public spaces is often trivialized by the label of "eve teasing" in South Asia. While there exists a volume of research on intimate partner or domestic violence in South Asia, the literature on public-space harassment (PSH) is rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480671
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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...
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The Veblenian roots of Institutional Political Economy
Ford, Kirsten - 2011
approach is capable of encompassing gender as an analytical category, an extension that would improve the ability of policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288088
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Thorstein Veblen: A marxist starting point
Ford, Kirsten; McColloch, William - 2011
As existing literature attests, in spite of methodological differences Marx and Veblen draw strikingly similar conclusions regarding production, conflict, and alienation in modern existence. We here attempt to establish that similarity in conclusion stems from similarity in approach. After...
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The unpaid care workpaid work connection
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2008
In order to provide a coherent perspective of gender differences in the world of work, this paper argues, the many … intersections of paid and unpaid work must be brought to light. It is well documented that gender-based wage differentials and … children and performing maintenance chores. Beyond the obvious gender inequalities characterizing the latter, unpaid work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267058
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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From unpaid to paid care work: the macroeconomic implications of HIV and AIDS on women's time-tax burdens
Antonopoulos, Rania; Toay, Taun N. - 2009
This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276845
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Truth vs. justification: Contrasting heterodox and mainstream thinking on development via the example of austerity in Africa
Sindzingre, Alice - 2021
The differences between mainstream and 'heterodox' theories and policies have become increasingly blurred, and this dynamic has also affected heterodox analyses of development. Being trapped by the primacy of the statistics-based methodological imperative, much heterodox thinking on development...
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