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Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern durchgeführt wurden: Gewalt und Wasser. Im ersten dieser … Konflikt lebt. Detailliert die Wirkung solcher Exponierung auf das Auftreten häuslicher Gewalt untersu... … in developing and emerging economies: violence, and water. Within the first of these areas, the analysis is centred on …
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Using changes in the possession of household assets over the past 20 years, several recent papers have argued that economic performance in Arica was substantially better than suggested by national income data and income poverty statistics, who suffer from well-known weaknesses. We scrutinize...
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We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the impact of gender inequality in education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies using male and female education as separate covariates...
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of 131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques, such as 2-ways FE...
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In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over the long run. Among the many plausible mechanisms...
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relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Motivated by this ambiguity, this study … violence, based on quantitative data from Jordan in 2007. A notable feature of this paper is that it controls for the potential … endogeneity of women's employment which might bias the relationship between employment and spousal violence. Disregarding the …
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Women’s empowerment has been identified as a prerequisite for poverty reduction. In addition to driving overall economic growth, women’s empowerment has been found to have beneficial effects on fertility rates, child health and education outcomes, as well as community development. This...
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This study explores how domestic violence and female employment interact and impact female economic empowerment in … violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women …'s employment, which might bias the relationship between employment and domestic violence. The study also attempts to do an in …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of 131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques, such as 2-ways FE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281808