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The unequal treatment of children is not gender neutral from the parent side. Our results show that women try to … symmetry between mothers' and fathers' financial situations leads to the perpetuation of gender inequality through generations. …
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for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality …
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for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality …
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monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and …
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This paper analyzes gender and ethnic differences in vulnerability and resilience to external shocks and stresses in … line are classified as highly resilient. The analysis shows that both gender and ethnicity are almost irrelevant as …
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the changes in the unpaid work time reveal that shifts in own and spousal employment status largely account for the gender …
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factors or policies on the share of resources of each household member. We apply the model to Albania, a country where gender …
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factors or policies on the share of resources of each household member. We apply the model to Albania, a country where gender …
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exists any gender specific discrepancy at the household level and the trend of such discrepancy over the years. Using three … components, we find persistent gender imbalance in educational expenditure where households provide better quality of education … for boys. Moreover, we find that gender based discrepancy has a very persistent trend and does not show any significant …
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Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until...
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