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-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …
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This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...
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unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
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We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...
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growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more … resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence economic growth in both economies. …
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geographical targeting of rural poverty zones. …
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assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a …
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We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of...
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