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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically … ambiguous. Maternal employment, through mothers' exposure to wider social networks and greater bargaining may also be associated …
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more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers …' and non-mothers' labour market outcomes. …
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This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
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Objective: To assess the feasibility of applying the World Health Organization's proposed 15 indicators of quality of care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings. Methods: Six of the indicators are about maternal health, five are for newborn...
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children at baseline. At midline, we find that the mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of …
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. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty …
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Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood. This study examines how extending the maternity leave...
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developed countries, constraints on mothers labour market participation and earnings being characterized as the motherhood …
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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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