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persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …
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selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls … use of such practices is reflective of the striking inequities girls face today, and it also has negative implications for … efforts to improve women's status in the long term. Consequently, governments of countries in these regions have employed …
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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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The study uses a cluster-randomized trial among 1,578 children from 979 households in rural El Salvador to test the impacts of TOMS shoe donations on children's time allocation, school attendance, health, self-esteem, and aid dependency. Results indicate high levels of usage and approval of the...
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This study examines the medium-term effects of a two-year cash transfer program targeted to adolescent girls and young … women. Significant declines in HIV prevalence, teen pregnancy, and early marriage among recipients of unconditional cash … women …
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female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education … 2016. The paper finds that the gender gap in business ownership remains high in many economies around the world. In the … majority of the analyzed economies, less than one-third of new limited liability company owners are women. Although sole …
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Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non …, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the individual portfolio choice and … productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …
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respond to declining income with coping strategies that can vary significantly by gender. In the past, women from low …Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low …-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be particularly salient in the current …
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ex ante risk-mitigating production decisions. Standard ordinary least squares regression results indicate that gender … matters as well; however, the measured productivity gap between male and female farmers disappears when gender is included in …
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integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …
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