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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …
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, gender, and economic development. Finally, I conclude by demonstrating that the net impacts of those biases could lead to … the ranking mechanism that a Noah-like economist would use to prioritize species with respect to gender concerns. I begin … complexity. (Originally: "Biodiversity Prioritisation and Gender" available at www.iegindia.org/workpap/wp324.pdf) …
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prioritisation is likely biased when ignoring the linkages between biodiversity, gender, and economic development. Finally, I … such prioritisation mechanisms with respect to gender concerns. I begin by defining biodiversity and how species are …
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‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …
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Condom use and communication among sexual partners are important strategies for HIV prevention. Using a panel data set of more than 1,200 married women in rural Malawi from 1998-2008, this paper shows that adequate HIV prevention strategies, i.e. condom use within marriage and HIV-related...
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framework that will guarantee the attainment of the United Nations millennium development goals(as well as the capacity to live …
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communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic … “Industrious Revolution”: Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy, 1600-1900’ is using marriage and …
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