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Eradicating women-hurting customs : what role for social engineering?
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017
Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...
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Eradicating women-hurting customs : what role for social engineering?
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Giula; Auriol, … - 2017
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty : Retooling Indigenous Resurgence for Development
Oguamanam, Chidi - 2022
The focus of the last two decades (1994–2015) on the world’s Indigenous peoples has highlighted a number of critical issues that are central to Indigenous empowerment and resurgence in the quest for decolonization. The key issues include Indigenous peoples’ full and effective participation...
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Emerging Giants, Aspiring Multinationals and Foreign Executives : Leapfrogging, Capability Building, and Competing with Developed Country Multinationals
Arp, Frithjof - 2014
The phenomenon of emerging market organizations appointing foreign executives from distant cultural contexts to headquarter positions has stirred public and academic interest. Emerging giants, aspiring multinationals, and even local organizations that focus entirely on domestic markets have...
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Patriarchy, Development, and the Divergence of Gender Equality
Davis, Lewis - 2023
What will happen to gender equality as the world develops? While modernization theory stresses the emergence of … increasingly cosmopolitan gender values, work on the cultural roots of gender roles finds that measures of historical patriarchy … measure of patriarchal history. These findings suggest that gender inequality will diverge as countries develop, reflecting …
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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Closing the gender profit gap?
Batista, Catia; Sequeira, Sandra; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021
-headed microenterprises, particularly those with a higher baseline level of profits, to close the gender profit gap in performance and skills …
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Women's economic rights in developing countries and the gender gap in migration to Germany
Neumayer, Eric; Plümper, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
There is a large variation across countries of origin in the gender composition of migrants coming to Germany. We argue … powerful push factor. We find corroborating evidence in our analysis of the gender composition of migration to Germany over the …
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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in … leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …
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