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Trends in Poverty, Employment, and Wages : White, Black, and Hispanic Women in the US, 1988-2002
Mergoupis, Thanos - 2007
the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049119
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Religion predicting fertility behaviour of young women in contemporary Germany
Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020
that Muslims are the youngest when becoming pregnant for the first time. Protestants delay first pregnancy, but once being … pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to … first pregnancy and its outcome, Catholics surprisingly compare to non‐religious women. Against the background of increasing …
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Female babies and risk-aversion
Pogrebna, Ganna; Oswald, Andrew J.; Haig, David - 2017
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk-aversion. Using a standard Holt-Laury criterion, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641647
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Women's autonomy in maternal healthcare decision-making in urban Ghana
Khalid, Andaratu Achuliwor; Avilés Irahola, Dennis Lucy; … - 2023
Enhancing the decision-making autonomy of women in developing countries constitutes one of the recognised approaches to improving maternal healthcare service utilisation. The inability of women to make decisions about their health, the lack of universal health insurance, and inadequate health...
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Professional image maintenance : how women navigate pregnancy in the workplace
Little, Laura M.; Smith Major, Virginia; Hinojosa, Amanda S. - In: Academy of Management journal : AMJ 58 (2015) 1, pp. 8-37
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A study to assess the cultural beliefs related to pregnancy and childbirth among women
Meena, Kumari; Harjot, Kaur; Harmanpreet, Kaur; … - In: Inventi impact: microfinance & banking (2015) 4, pp. 188-190
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How do Women Learn They Are Pregnant? The Introduction of Clinics and Pregnancy Uncertainty in Nepal
Musse, Isabel - 2020
Woman's knowledge about her pregnancy state is an important input to decrease maternal mortality and improve the … conditions in-utero for the child. This paper explores the effect of the distance to a health clinic on pregnancy knowledge … pregnancy tests decreases in 1.3 percentage points the proportion of women who do not know they are pregnant, from a base of 3 …
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Women's personal networks and recourse to prenatal care in Bamako
Cisse, Siaka; Rossier, Clémentine; Sauvain-Dugerdil, … - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 88 (2022) 2, pp. 195-216
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Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2021
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. A crucial advantage of the large and informative administrative data we use is that it provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317123
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Female babies and risk-aversion : causal evidence from hospital wards
Pogrebna, Ganna; Oswald, Andrew J.; Haig, David - In: Journal of health economics 58 (2018), pp. 10-17
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