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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
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children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …
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children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128226
children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …. Therefore, policies that empower women can have additional positive spillovers for children's human capital. …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the …
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How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and financial incentives? We analyze a conditional cash transfer program in India called Janani Suraksha Yojna. By providing access to prenatal sex detection technology like the...
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larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …
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The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well‐being of girls by analyzing changes in children …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...
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housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged …
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effect of mother's work on child nutrition. In particular, the results suggest that it is children in the lower tail of the …; the effects are small and insignificant for children in the rest of the distribution …
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