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India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …
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This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … 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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India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
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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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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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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …
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