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This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may … not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic … percentage points. Two main explanations are found. First, women identify themselves (and are identified) primarily as housewives …
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did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … opportunities for women are decreasing, and that social and cultural factors may be interacting with these three factors and …
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Between 2003 and 2015, the labor force participation rate of women in Bangladesh increased from 26.0% to 35.6%. On … further analysis, we find that much of this gain was due to an increasing number of women working from home. We use the model … Bangladeshi women. Afterward, we use a simplified version of the decomposition technique devised by Bourguignon, Ferreira, and …
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