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We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3.8-4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...
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After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an...
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We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The intervention significantly improved maternal mental health,...
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men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of … the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage … quantify the importance of changes to preferences and relative demand for exibility on the gender wage gap. Higher relative …
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