This paper aims to investigate empirically how international migration and remittances in Indonesia, particularly … sending households are likely to vary depending on the gender of the migrants. On average, migration reduces the working hours …, female migration and their remittances tend to reduce child labor. The estimated impacts of migration and remittances on …

This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …

This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large … changed women?s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender …

, and birth spacing, using data on Hindu women from India's National Family and Health Surveys. Women with eight or more …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … access, on female owned enterprise creation in the informal sector ; and (iv) gender specific market access to inputs matters …

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 … average, though gender differences in productivity vary dramatically across countries. Mean differences in log output per …

India experienced sustained economic growth for more than two decades following the economic liberalization in 1991 … paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … patterns of educational mobility from 1992/93 to 2006, with a special emphasis on the roles played by gender and geography. The …

associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …

Through substitution and income effects, remittances can alter an individual's allocation of time between market … 2006 and 2014 to estimate the impact of remittances on labor supply in the three countries of the Northern Triangle (El … Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). The results show that remittances are associated with a reduction in labor force …

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … offers support for a number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering …