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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 show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …-regression analysis for studies that use the female-male ratio of education as explanatory variable. There we find evidence for a positive …
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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 show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …-regression analysis for studies that use the female-male ratio of education as explanatory variable. There we find evidence for a positive …
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In a recent paper in the Review of Economic Studies, Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray (Anderson and Ray, 2010) develop and apply a new ‘flow’ measure of ‘missing women’ to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries. Contrary to the existing literature, they find...
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characteristics with non-elites in terms of wealth, education and social networks, the share of pro-poor projects increases. …
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role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …
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that individualizes education and nutrition and some aspects of the living standards dimensions. We find that the poverty …
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The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in receipt of medical attention can be one of the most...
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education, higher fertility rates and higher child mortality. Moreover, social institutions related to gender inequality are …
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Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequality in education, health, economic or political participation, these …
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education, higher fertility rates and higher child mortality. Moreover, social institutions related to gender inequality are …
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