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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)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503500
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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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The price of gold : dowry and death in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2016
Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of dowry, we use variation in gold prices to investigate this. First, we exploit a sharp unexpected rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450437
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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 11 (2019) 2, pp. 205-237
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002525
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The price of gold : dowry and death in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - In: Journal of development economics 143 (2020)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233194
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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/10011759888