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women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for … each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This effect is sizeable given a mean level of exposure of 11 years and … infrastructure do not appear to be a potential mechanism for the effect to occur; the strongest evidence is that local women leaders …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884089
(english) We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732224
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720302
This paper considers the statistical analysis of large panel data sets where even after conditioning on common observed effects the cross section units might remain dependently distributed. This could arise when the cross section units are subject to unobserved common effects and/or if there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703218
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions where conmmitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption in village economies of less developped countries. Households can insure through both formal contracts and informal agreements, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005773022
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions in which commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure each other through both formal contracts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123633
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions where commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure through both formal contracts and informal agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504414
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions between households where commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure through both formal contracts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566519
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887070