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Conditional cash transfers to mothers, intrahousehold allocations : the role of unobservability
Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - In: International journal of economic policy studies 16 (2022) 1, pp. 275-296
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199086
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Mothers' status, food price shock and child nutrition in Karnataka
Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018
to capture intrahousehold dimensions of women's empowerment. Endogenous status in our study is measured by mothers' work … status and her time spent with children. Exogenous status is captured by a composite index constructed with parental … and wasting. We therefore conclude that mothers' status, measured by time is more important to improve child nutritional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883862
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Gender Gap in Parents' Financing Strategy for Hospitalization of Their Children : Evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Lamanna, Francesca; Klasen, Stephan - 2010
The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked great interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of health care in the country. No studies, however, have directly examined discrimination in health-care financing strategies in the case of severe illness of sons versus...
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Push or pull? : drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533351
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109425
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894075
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What drives female labour force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Pieters, Janneke; … - In: The journal of development studies 57 (2021) 3, pp. 417-442
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483731
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Intrahousehold allocations by mothers to children : the role of observability
Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018
In this article we analyse the impact of spousal preference expectations on mothers' willingness to invest in children … sharing, uncertainty is created which decreases cooperation by mothers by reducing their willingness to invest in children …’s food/nutrition and health/medical expenses. We use a survey conducted in Karnataka, South India, where women with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883859