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Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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professional development for its residents. Through an empiric research, we have identified the most important factors which …
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
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investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
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-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …
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development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic …
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We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …
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