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Preventing More"Missing Girls" : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference

Kumar, Sneha - 2018

In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go ?missing? because of the...

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?Missing Girls? In the South Caucasus Countries : Trends, Possible Causes, and Policy Options

Das Gupta, Monica - 2017

Sexratios at birth rose sharply in the South Caucasus countries after 1991, but recent data indicate that this trend is turning. What caused this rise, and what can be done to accelerate its normalization? Traditional kinship systems in the region are similar to those of other settings with...

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Sex-Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing

Pörtner, Claus C. - 2017

Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …

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Are Women Less Productive Farmers? How Markets and Risk Affect Fertilizer Use, Productivity, and Measured Gender Effects in Uganda

Larson, Donald F. - 2020

African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing...

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Is There an Incipient Turnaround in Asia's 'Missing Girls' Phenomenon?

Das Gupta, Monica - 2016

The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of quot;missing girlsquot; in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked...

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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies

Melecky, Martin - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...

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Get Rich or Die Tryin' : Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017

Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the information they have, what is their revealed willingness to trade risks for higher earnings? To answer these questions, this paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment...

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Hit and Run? Income Shocks and School Dropouts in Latin America

Cerutti, Paula Maria - 2019

How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The...

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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Lakner, Christoph - 2017

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...

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Does Child Sponsorship Pay Off in Adulthood? An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth

Wydick, Bruce - 2017

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship...

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