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Weather Shocks, Age of Marriage and the Direction of Marriage Payments

Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016

In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i … these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but opposite effects on the early marriage hazard in the two regions: in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …

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Seasonal migration and feminization of farm management: Evidence from India

Chandrasekhar, S.; Sahoo, Soham; Swaminathan, Hema - 2017

This paper explores the association between short-term migration in the household and feminization of farm management in rural India. The analysis uses a nationally representative data set covering 35,604 rural Indian households in the year 2013. There is gender disaggregated information on who...

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Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India

Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2018

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …

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Sibling death clustering in India: state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: First Order Effects on Gender Gaps in Employment and Domestic Time Use in India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Examining high frequency national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) on paid work (employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the...

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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India

López Bóo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - 2014

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...

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Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Singh, Prakarsh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...

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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Modeling eldercare by children and children-in-law: The role of marriage institutions

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2017

well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or … and happiness of in-family caregivers could be enriched by taking account of material in-marriage transfers that the … their counterparts in the South. Their families are also likely to pay lower dowries at the time of marriage, which is …

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