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undertakes a talk-centered analysis of the gram sabha with a focus on examining the oral participation of women in general and … women affiliated with microcredit self-help groups who have access to an associational life. The qualitative analysis of 255 … gram sabha transcripts from four South Indian states finds that women associated with microcredit self-help groups employ a …
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Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated … since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor … incomes and husband's education as well as the falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the demand side, the sectors …
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The paper explores whether one of the largest programs in the world for women's empowerment and rural livelihoods, the … Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that …), invest in education, and increase total expenditures (for the poorest and poor). Women who participated in the program had …
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pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their …This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference … first-born and uncovers several new findings. First, the share of living women with a first-born girl is a decreasing …
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-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …Electrification has been shown to accelerate opportunities for women by moving them into more productive activities …. This paper investigates the causal link between electricity access and women's empowerment, using a large gender …
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This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest … rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …
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limit women's ability to participate actively and influence outcomes in these forums. In response, policy makers have tried … to induce women's participation by leveraging the group-based format of self-help groups, which can build women's social …, known as the Pudhu Vaazhvu Project, on women's civic participation in rural Tamil Nadu. Using text-as-data methods on a …
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, India, this paper opens the "black box" of deliberation to examine the gendered and status-based patterns of influence … measures of deliberative influence, women are at a disadvantage relative to men; women are less likely to speak, set the agenda …, and receive a relevant response from state officials. Finally, the paper shows that although quotas for women on village …
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mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians … labor market opportunities for women, potentially helping to stem India's declining female labor force participation rate …This study examines whether political empowerment of women affects their economic participation. In the context of …
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