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Powerful Women : Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
Beaman, Lori A. - 2008
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councilor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723703
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Women as Policy Makers : Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment
Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - 2003
This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123671
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Women's empowerment and economic development
Duflo, Esther - 2011 - Rev.
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - 2011
Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460955
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - 2012
Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113106
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Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non …-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in … any direction) are associated with reduced growth in the next period. The estimated relationship is robust to variations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828600
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2003
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non …-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in … any direction) are associated with reduced growth in the next period. The estimated relationship is robust to variations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153594
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Women Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - In: Journal of Economic Literature 50 (2012) 4, pp. 1051-79
Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129962
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Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124136
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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
Duflo, Esther - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 795-813
Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian government engaged in one of the largest school construction programs on record. Combining differences across regions in the number of schools constructed with differences across cohorts induced by the timing of the program suggests that each primary school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005571672