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Electrification and Women's Empowerment : Evidence from Rural India
Samad, Hussain A. - 2019
-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …
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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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Hukou and Highways : The Impact of China?S Spatial Development Policies on Urbanization and Regional Inequality
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2017
China has used two main spatial policies to shape its geographic patterns of development: restricted labor mobility through the Hukou residential registration system and massive infrastructure investment, notably a 96,000 kilometer national expressway network. This paper develops a structural...
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Taking Power : Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa
Annan, Jeannie - 2019
This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...
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Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil : A Long-Run Analysis
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
This paper studies the long-run impact of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based, three-period OLG model that accounts for women's time allocation...
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Empowering Women : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
Beath, Andrew - 2017
In societies with widespread gender discrimination, development programs that encourage female participation in local governance can potentially redress gender imbalances in economic, political, and social outcomes. Using a randomized field experiment encompassing 500 Afghan villages, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974819
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What Did the Maoists Ever Do for Us? Education and Marriage of Women Exposed to Civil Conflict in Nepal
Valente, Christine - 2017
Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits within and between-district variation in the intensity of violence to estimate the impact of...
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias - 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind...
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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb - 2017
productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
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