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Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps, evaluate policies and monitor countries' progress. With this aim, over the past two decades, research has mainly been directed towards the development of composite indices. The purpose...
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gender-specific differences in health, i.e. the so-called "gender health gap", in the same age group. Self-assessed general … health in 2013 reveals no significant differences between men and women in the countries studied. However, gender … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that …
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Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination....
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
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In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court is currently considering a Mississippi law that …
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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence the gaps in political attainment and health status. The effect of trade …
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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence the gaps in political attainment and health status. The effect of trade …
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This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender...
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health and demography2. Beside the comparative study of in region differentialsʺ done for the CIS, I analyze the trends in … attainment, health, and demography male population in the CIS region has became more disadvantaged, which also leads to enlarging …
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