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Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017
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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Population sex ratios and violence against women : the long-run effects of sex selection in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017
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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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK
Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
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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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016
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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016
unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West …
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Intimate partner violence and the business cycle
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Kambhampati, Uma S.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2018
We examine the impact of business cycle variation on intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. We distinguish male from female unemployment rates, identifying the influence of each conditional upon the other. We find that a...
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Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - In: Journal of development economics 146 (2020)
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Socioemotional skills in early childhood : evidence from a maternal psychosocial intervention
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
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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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022
transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003, following which the share of twin births showed a precipitous drop of 70 …
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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2021
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