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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
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Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data
Bargain, Olivier; Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Jara, H. Xavier - 2023
This paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population. Our analysis uses administrative data for individuals affiliated to social security between January 2019 and December 2021. We identify the top...
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The care connection : the World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries
Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in...
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Improving parenting practices for early child development : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2020
targeting parents of children aged six to 24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. The programme engaged parents through … baseline, children's communication, problem-solving, and personal social skills improved in treated groups. After almost three … resulted in increases in maternal time investments in both the short and the medium term, as well as improvements in parents …
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What drives parental investments in early childhood? : experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda
Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2023
parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided …, we added a positive feedback message to parents about their accomplishments during their participation in an earlier …
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children : lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d'Ivoire
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022
. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school …
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Women's labour supply and household insurance in Africa
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2012
timing, and investments in children. -- insurance ; women's labour supply ; added worker effect ; business cycles ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009563381
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122672
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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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