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the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador … enforced or monitored in Ecuador, helps explain the magnitude of program effects. …
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prediction during the period of strong economic growth that followed the crisis. We find some evidence on the informality bias of …
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Occupational segregation by gender persists in spite of improvements in labor market gender equality over the past 40 … years. In this paper a simple index of occupational segregation, the D-Index, computed for each of the 288 census divisions … variable is included to capture the influence of spatial variations in access to services and employment opportunities. Results …
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accordance with employment policies. Although some women participate on an equal footing with men, the ‘dual earner, gender …
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’s participation in employment and reproductive household work in Tajikistan, drawing on the 2003 Tajikistan Living Standards Survey … how women share household work, an absence of market substitutes for caring and reproductive labor, employment in family …) approach. We find that few individual and household characteristics are related to time in employment. Time in noncare …
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We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfillment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that preventive visits of children born after the mother...
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The paper explores the impact of a government sponsored microcredit program in India on women's decision-making agency across different socio-religious communities. The paper shows that women's participation in the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona (SGSY) has resulted in varied patterns of...
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Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona (SGSY), a government sponsored micro credit programme of India, has been designed to ameliorate income poverty among the rural poor, particularly women, through human capital development and strengthening female agency. In this backdrop the basic objectives...
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In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the predominance of small and marginal farms and an emerging feminization of agriculture, this paper argues for a new institutional approach to poverty reduction, agricultural revival and social empowerment. It makes a...
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