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higher female entrepreneurship andemployment, which boosts India's output by 1.6 percent. However, regulations and gender … formal sector employment could boost India's output by 6.8percent …
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This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match …
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This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women …
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Sex preference and domestic violence are both rich literature, but there is no stream of prior studies linking the two. This paper addresses this gap by investigating whether a father's preference regarding the sex of children affects the probability of the mother experiencing domestic violence....
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We examine the impact of business cycle variation on intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. We distinguish male from female unemployment rates, identifying the influence of each conditional upon the other. We find that a...
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India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
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effects of women's local electoral success on subsequent female candidacy at higher levels of government in India from 1977 to …
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India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
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The paper examines the short-term implications of urbanization on women empowerment in India. In theory, urbanization … urbanization that India is currently experiencing, the importance of these findings cannot be overemphasized. They suggest that … while urbanization could go a long way toward economically empowering women in India, the government also needs to devise …
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. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …
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