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Female labor force participation and child education in India : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …
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Measuring the effect of gender segregation on the gender gap in time-related underemployment
Acosta-Ballesteros, Juan; Osorno-del Rosal, María del Pilar - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
This paper focuses on the impact that gender segregation in the labour market exerts on the underemployment gender gap … for young adult workers in Spain. In order to analyse the relative importance of segregation in this gap, we develop a …
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The Spatial Economy of Gender-Based Occupational Segregation
Olfert, M. Rose; Moebis, Dianne M. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 36 (2006) 1, pp. 44-62
Occupational segregation by gender persists in spite of improvements in labor market gender equality over the past 40 … years. In this paper a simple index of occupational segregation, the D-Index, computed for each of the 288 census divisions … variable is included to capture the influence of spatial variations in access to services and employment opportunities. Results …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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Female labor force participation and child education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603743
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Fiscal reform in Spanish municipalities: Gender differences in budgetary adjustment
García, Israel; Hayo, Bernd - 2023
Do gender differences matter for politicians' budgetary behaviour when confronted with an exogenous change in the institutional framework? After the 2013 Spanish municipal reform, municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants were no longer responsible for managing the provision of social...
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Mother or child? : intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908633
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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548202
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Where have all the young girls gone? : identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - 2010
This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313317
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Women : walking and waiting for water the time value of public water supply
Groß, Elena; Günther, Isabel; Schipper, Youdi - 2013
Public funding of water supply infrastructure in developing countries is often justified by the expectation that the time spent on water collection significantly decreases, leading to increased labor force participation of women. In this study we empirically test this hypothesis by applying a...
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