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The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...
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The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...
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to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also … depresses mothers' employment, an inverse relationship that has intensified over time. Further, living in a household with older …
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This paper investigates the role of demand-side incentives to mothers and supply-side incentives to community health … entitled socio-economically backward mothers with cash assistance if they chose to give birth at public health institutions …. By using variations across eligibility of mothers, and the differential implementation of ASHAs across low-focus and high …
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This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their motherś working status when the … motherś participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate …
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We use a nationally representative dataset from India to investigate the causal effects of maternal participation in labor markets on child nutrition (the standardized height for age). Our study differs from previous research in two important aspects: it explores malnutrition using a quantile...
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