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care and visiting their family. Furthermore, educated women have lower fertility and use more maternal health care, and … their children have better health outcomes than those of less educated women. Overall, our results suggest that the marriage …
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This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using data from rural Bangladesh in 1998-1999 it investigates whether women in a relatively strong bargaining position at the time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position...
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the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female household-heads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …
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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of …
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Previous research has examined the incidence and correlates of contraceptive use and of several dimensions of female autonomy but only rarely the intersection of the two: female contraceptive use autonomy (CUA). Using a nationally representative household survey for two cohorts of married women,...
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796271
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798209
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800548
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131213