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Gender and ethnicity in post-conflict Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
The paper examines the comparative economic wellbeing of female- and male-headed households among Serbs and Albanians in post-conflict Kosovo. Evidence from the living standards measurement study (LSMS) household survey, 2001, shows that Serb households, both those headed by women and men, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277342
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Gender and ethnicity in post-conflict Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2008
-headed households have the lowest standard of living. -- consumption ; ethnicity ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725574
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Changes in gender differences in household poverty in Kenya
Ichwara, Jared Masini; Kiriti-Nganga, Tabitha W.; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-27
surveys conducted by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in 2005/06 and 2015/16. An extended Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
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What about the women? : female headship, poverty and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2011
This paper investigates whether heterogeneous subgroups of female-headed households are worse off than traditional households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique panel data of over 4000 rural households from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348629
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … thorough discussion of how to apply the technique, an analysis of the sensitivity of the decomposition estimates to different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267328
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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169318
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Excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness among status Indians in Canada
Akee, Randall; Feir, Donna - 2016
In this paper we use confidential-use Census and administrative data to produce the first national estimates of excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We identify mortality rates at least twice the...
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Social identity and aspiration : double jeopardyor intersectionality? : evidence from rural India
Sarkar, Sudipa; Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Lyonette, Clare - 2020
This study investigates the relationship between individuals' social identity and their future aspirations in a developing country. We analyse primary survey data from participants of a large-scale skill-training programme that targets rural poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389396
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Gender Inequality and Caste : Field Experimental Evidence from India
Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Sahoo, Soubhagya; Wang, … - 2022
Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination....
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Gender differentiation in wages in Kazakhstan
Roshchin, Sergey Yu.; Yemelina, Natalya K. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493935