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intersect, including gender, poverty and migrant status. Objective and Methods: This qualitative study aims to better understand …
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Despite century old concern and debate child sex ratio patterns have shown an alarming increase over the last two decades, more so during 1991 to 2001. The pattern of increase in child sex ratio though erratic up to the first half of the last century, shows consistent rise at least since 1961....
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This article uses a utility based theory of suicide to conclude that a fall in the well-being of the female population in a country relative to the male population should imply a rise in the ratio of female suicide rate to male suicide rate. An application of this inference is attempted for...
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Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and re-inforce traditional … views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in … at the individual level. We find the gender gap in the probability of owning a formal account, having access to a formal …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
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keen to observe subjective returns to education for different social identity groups, such as gender, religion, and caste …
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a causal interpretation of the estimated effect. This finding implies that a change in gender-specific labor …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389396
in entrepreneurial positions compared with states with languages that are multi-gender or no gender. It is further argued …
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perception of gender roles and attitudes around female labour force participation. We use third party vignettes to directly test … the validity of the hypothesis that lower castes have more egalitarian gender norms and lower acceptance of restrictions … on female autonomy. We find that the relationship between conservative gender norms and caste are in turn influenced by …
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