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Temperature, climate change, and household financial behaviour : evidence from Viet Nam
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Trong Anh Trinh; Danquah, Michael - 2023
, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … associated with a 6.3 per cent decrease in household savings and a 1.4 per cent increase in household borrowing. In the case of … household savings, we find that the effects of temperature shocks are more pronounced on informal savings than formal savings …
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Pension funds in sub-Saharan Africa
Nyang`oro, Owen; Njenga, Githinji - 2022
provides elderly assistance and is a source of savings for long-term investment. The pension systems in SSA, however, are …
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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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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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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique
Morgado, João; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...
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Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps : evidence from Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018
We use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits. Our results show that cognitive skills have greater explanatory power than personality...
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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021
Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and...
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Female managers and firm performance : evidence from the Caribbean countries
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021
This paper investigates whether firm performance differs significantly when comparing firms with female and male top managers in the Caribbean region. We use survey data with detailed information on gender for firms in 13 Caribbean countries. Our methodology is based on Blinder- Oaxaca...
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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world : evidence from global microdata
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2021
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys from developing countries, we measure long-term...
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Closing the gap : gender and innovation
Barasa, Laura - 2020
Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises and male-owned enterprises. A non-linear...
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