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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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Is the Baby to Blame? An Inquiry into the Consequences of Early Childbearing
Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017
Teenage pregnancy has been a cause of concern for policy makers because it is associated with a complex and often adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their children, and as the potential determinant of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975227
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Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2021
Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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When the Money Runs Out : Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects on Human Capital Accumulation?
Baird, Sarah - 2017
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 transfers (UCTs) during the program evaporated quickly...
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau?s...
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Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
' endowments. Improved access to bank accounts and sanitation as well as lower fertility in the parent generation suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972525
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The Challenges of Bankruptcy Reform
Cirmizi, Elena - 2017
The 2008 financial crisis was followed by a global economic downturn, credit crunch, and reduction in cross-border lending, trade finance, remittances, and foreign direct investment, which adversely affected businesses around the world. The consequent increase in the number of firm insolvencies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976336
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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania
Buehren, Niklas - 2017
effective tool to attain greater inclusion of youth in financial services, and brings out important issues of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963513
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A Skills-Based Human Capital Framework to Understand the Phenomenon of Youth Economic Disengagement
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2018
accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as a state (temporary or permanent) where individuals stop accumulating human …
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