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Maternal Labor Market Return, Parental Leave Policies, and Gender Inequality in Housework
Schober, Pia S. - 2011
This study investigates how the duration of the work interruption and the labor market status of mothers upon their … Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of … results suggest that mothers increase their housework hours with every additional month of employment interruption. Mothers …
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The impact of China and India on the developing world
Kaplinsky, Raphael - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 1, pp. 15-21
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
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Do family planning programmes help women's employment? The case of Indian mothers
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Francavilla, Francesca - 2007
The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...
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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007
The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268139
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Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and both income risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268267
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School attendance of children and the work of mothers: a joint multilevel model for India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2008
This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate …
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Incentivizing demand for supply-constrained care: Institutional birth in India
Andrew, Alison; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2020
We examine how the effects of incentivizing individuals to use healthcare depend on the capacity of the health system. We study a conditional cash transfer program (JSY) in India that paid women to give birth in medical facilities. We find that JSY doubled the number of deliveries for which the...
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Maternal autonomy and the education of the subsequent generation: Evidence from three contrasting states in India
Alfano, Marco; Arulampalam, Wiji; Kambhampati, Uma - 2011
This paper makes a significant contribution on both conceptual and methodological fronts, in the analysis of the effect of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time duration model where maternal autonomy is entered as a...
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination
Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher education and are therefore not available for work (education...
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