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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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under-invest in outcomes for their female children. Linking the gender composition of children in Indian households to their … ranges from 7-14% in urban and 3-7% in rural areas, respectively. Various heterogeneity analysis suggest that the reduction … in this paper provide a new first stage association between gender composition of children and sanitation behavior and …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058297
decision to become an entrepreneur substantially differ across gender. Present study provides empirical evidences towards … individuals' entry into rural non-farm micro-entrepreneurship focusing on gender issue. Based on primary data collected in Assam … industry. The results reveal the existence gender differences with respect to magnitude and direction in the determinants of …
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This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...
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How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164957
Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the...
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Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the...
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with regard to the provision of urban infrastructure and the development of informality in each country. The role of local … levels of informality in urban real estate and labor markets. In China, incentives for local urban growth, combined with the … growth of a formally housed new urban middle class but with important social and environmental limitations. In India, on the …
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