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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...

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Political role models, child marriage, and women's autonomy over marriage in India

Castilla, Carolina - 2017

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate that women in local government decrease the likelihood...

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Marriage, work, and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration-if they...

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Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Van de Walle, Dominique; Villar, Paola - 2017

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as...

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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal

Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017

In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...

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Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

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Ban on female migrant workers : skills-differentiated evidence from Sri Lanka

Weeraratne, Bilesha - 2021

, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …

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Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil

Codazzi, Karen; Pero, Valéria; Sant'Anna, André - 2017

Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and the difference in labour force participation persist. Akerlof and Kranton introduce the concept of identity from sociology and social psychology at the economic analysis; based...

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Contested relationships : women's economic and social empowerment, insights from the transfer of material assets in Bangladesh

Scott, Lucy - 2012

This article examines the relationship between women's economic and social empowerment in the context of extreme poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the processes resulting from the implementation of the Chars...

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

Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries … supply. While overall employment does not show any association with childbirth, women's paid work registers a significant … like India, characterised by informal labour markets, and early age of childbirth, the impact of motherhood on employment …

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