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paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …
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We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …
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, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …
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Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...
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We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use a set of quantitative and qualitative data...
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employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …
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Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …
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This study addresses the macroeconomic effect of foreign aid on the factors of growth. Specifically, we examine the effects of foreign aid on capital investment (human capital, physical capital) in sub-Saharan Africa. Our methodological approach evaluates the effect of disaggregate aid (aid for...
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Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in...
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