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indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …
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This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of...
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Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms …, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work …
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occupational profiles, the former are more educated and have markedly greater wealth. The median banked household spends 32% more … per capita than the median unbanked household, and the median per capita wealth in banked households is 88% higher than … that in unbanked households. Our findings suggest that education levels, wealth and unobserved household attributes which …
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in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict … behavior from a husband or partner, women's autonomy in household decision making, and their control over their own earnings …'s autonomy in household decision making are heightened in locations that are impacted by the Boko Haram insurgency, indicating …
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market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive …
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education and marriage. Overall conflict intensity had a small, positive effect on female educational attainment, whereas … intensity and Maoist abductions during school age both increased the probability of early female marriage, but exposure to … conflict during marriageable age does not appear to have affected women's long-term marriage probability …
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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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shows that historically, China has had nearly-universal marriage for women and a very competitive market for men. Lower …
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behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …
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