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This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively...
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We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child … exchange, suggesting again that gender dimensions of networks may be important to diffusion of the crop. We use data from an …
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development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … control of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender … asset gap. The quantitative and qualitative findings suggest ways that greater attention to gender and assets by researchers …
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gender gaps in landownership across countries. However, critical data gaps cloud our understanding of land rights and why …
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including exclusive breastfeeding, children’s dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity and minimum acceptable diet …, children’s height-for-age, weight-for-height, and weight-for-age z-scores, and women’s dietary diversity score and body mass … positively and significantly correlated with women’s dietary diversity, but not body mass index. This suggests that improved …
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daughters will earn over their lifetimes. To help right gender imbalances, the authors consider policies to encourage adoption … conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender …
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This paper analyzes the ways in which gender issues affect property rights and the use of natural resources in …
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This paper uses three-generation retrospective data from the rural Philippines to examine the role of the extended family, proxied by alternative measures of grandparent coresidence, on investments in children. An extension of the wealth model of intergenerational transfers shows that extended...
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