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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504953
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475191
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785556
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740636
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584733
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Path-Breakers : How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072162
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Pathbreakers? Women's electoral success and future political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504837
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Pathbreakers? : women's electoral success and future political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 128 (2018) 613, pp. 1844-1878
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Maternal Depression,Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment : Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
Baranov, Victoria - 2017
We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women's financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942094