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Changing male perceptions of gender equality : evidence from an experimental study
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tarp, Finn - 2018
that commenting on gender-related laws reduces men's bias against women slightly, while writing stories has a strong effect … on reducing existing prejudice against women. Moreover, writing gender-related stories improves men’s knowledge of gender … deep-rooted prejudices against women. In this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether facilitating …
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The effect of Hukou registration policy on rural-to-urban migrants' health
Bengoa, Marta; Rick, Christopher - 2018
Access to social services in China is connected to a system of household registration (Hukou system) determined by place of origin with difficult geographical transferability. As a consequence, a vast majority of rural-to-urban migrants do not have access to public health services in urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806728
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Internal migration and crime in Brazil
Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019
Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants. In this paper, I provide the first evidence of the effect of internal migration on crime with longitudinal data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161316
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Migrants leaving mega-cities : where they move and why prices matter
Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019
Traditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect. In this paper I show that in Brazil as many people move out of as into metropolitan cities, and...
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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011
, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors and the greater economic activity of women. Male-dominated bequests of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311712
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Stability and vulnerability of the Latin American middle class
Torche, Florencia; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation and measurement error than standard...
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How close does the apple fall to the tree? : some evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from India
Motiram, Sripad; Singh, Ashish - 2012
Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, we examine intergenerational occupational mobility in India, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. We group individuals into classes and document patterns of mobility at the rural, urban and all-India...
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Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality : evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2015
This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children thereby reducing their future earnings, and...
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
daughters, as having children under five is found to be negatively associated with the participation of women in formal …
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Whose intergenerational mobility? : a new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation
Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2022
Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards. This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...
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