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This study departs from extant work on diversity and development in several respects. Using DHS data from a large …. We exploit evidence at multiple levels—country, subnational region, and district—and we measure diversity in a variety of … ways. This unique approach reveals that although diversity may have negative ramifications on human development at national …
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This study evaluates the impact of India’s land-allocation and registration program in West Bengal, a program that targets poor populations and promotes the inclusion of women’s names on land titles. Although we are unable to detect statistically significant program effects on current...
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on gender-differentiated land outcomes in Northern Uganda. We exploit exogenous variation in displacement to identify … outcomes. Policy and programmatic attention to gender in land governance in Uganda should continue to be emphasized. …
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Efforts by international development agencies to design gender-sensitive projects have sharpened their focus on women …
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Our study provides a nationally representative analysis of the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Malawi. We … portion driven by gender differences in levels of observable attributes, and (ii) a portion driven by gender differences in …
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Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be exacerbated under a changing climate … how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape … how gender and adaptation interact as households abandon certain crops, adopt high-yielding varieties and shift to cash …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between agency and Indonesian women’s well-being. The existing debate on empowerment mostly focuses on agency’s instrumental value, how agency benefits development and household/women’s welfare. We depart from this debate by considering the intrinsic...
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This article investigates whether heterogeneous subgroups of female-headed households are worse off than households headed by men. It analyzes the correlates of consumption, shock exposure, and severity, as well as vulnerability to poverty. Using panel data of over 4000 rural households from...
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This paper explores the link between the gender of a household head and food security in rural Kenya. The results show …
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This study examines how the 2008–2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and the coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market. Regression estimates using repeated quarterly waves of the Labor Force Survey indicate small declines in employment probabilities,...
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