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The article presents an analysis of the association between labor market characteristics related to female employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition refers to workers whose salary is below 60% of the median,...
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We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...
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The link between household poverty and child labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru. Providing good schools in … labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru - perhaps partly because Pakistani schools are not as good as those in Peru … girls. Strong complementarity exists between the labor market for women and that for girls in Pakistan. Providing good …
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large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work …
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This article adds to the corruption literature by identifying factors influencing Bangladeshi farm households' probability of experiencing corruption in different service sectors. The econometric results show that households' probability of being exposed to corruption can largely be explained...
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