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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala

Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017

With the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for consideration both of indigenous and ladino populations, as...

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

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

opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …

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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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Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society

McDoom, Omar - 2016

Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...

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Norms that matter : exploring the distribution of women's work between income generation, expenditure-saving, and unpaid domestic responsibilities in India

Deshpande, Ashwini; Kabeer, Naila - 2021

Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are involved in expenditure-saving activities, i.e....

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Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India

Das, Shreyasee; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2022

This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

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Inequality of opportunities among ethnic groups in the Philippines

Reyes, Celia M.; Mina, Christian D.; Asis, Ronina D. - 2017

This paper contributes to the scant body of literature on inequalities among and within ethnic groups in the Philippines by examining both the vertical and horizontal measures in terms of opportunities in accessing basic services such as education, electricity, safe water, and sanitation. The...

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Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary school

Querejeta, Martina - 2022

This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan nationally representative survey of 9th grade students and exploit the quasi-random variation in the proportion of female peers across classes within schools for causal identification....

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Institutions and Asia's development : the role of norms and organizational power

Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory. Despite much progress, the dominant approaches do not agree about the institutions that matter nor do they...

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Gender and social mobility : exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation

Luke, Nancy - 2019

Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized countries. This paper discusses the measurement of...

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