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Intrahousehold health care financing strategy and the gender gap : empirical evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008
The "missing women" dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … meager resources on hospitalization of boys rather than girls. We use the 60th Indian National Sample Survey and a … that while the gap in the probability of boys' and girls' hospitalization and usage of household income and savings is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876155
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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul - 2011
India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124785
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Intra-Household Gender Disparities in Children's Medical Care Before Death in India
Asfaw, Abay - 2007
The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730796
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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources
Antman, Francisca M. - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...
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Is Self-Employment the Answer to Caste Discrimination? Decomposing the Earnings Gap in Indian Household Nonfarm Businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2014
Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, we employ two methodologies to estimate the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058821
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Children in left-behind migrant households : education and gender equality
Saleemi, Sundus - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind" by the migrants. Left-behind households' expenditure on children's education and the gendered distribution of these expenditures are two outcomes of main interest. First, it is...
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Is Household Shock a Boon or Bane to the Utilisation of Preventive Healthcare for Children? Evidence From Uganda
Baulia, Susmita - 2021
A stylized fact in the development literature is that resource-constrained households in low-income countries invest very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children’s preventive healthcare during idiosyncratic shocks when...
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Gender, intra-household discrimination and cash transfer schemes : the case of Indian Punjab
Singh, Nadia - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/75, pp. 1-13
For many years, the Punjab province of India has had the dubious distinction of having the worst sex ratio among all … other states of India. In recent years, both the child sex ratio and the overall sex ratio has shown a marked improvement in …
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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963260
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Multidisciplinary Household Panel Studies Under Academic Direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193475