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We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility rates across rural Ghana. Rural households with electricity, tend to have fewer children ever born to a woman than households without electricity. Using control function...
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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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the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt … labor market conditions in destination provinces as instrumental variables for parental endogenous migration choice. We find …
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population losses caused by a low birth rate and a negative internal migration can be significantly reduced by a positive … external (i.e. international) migration balance. These demographic changes lead also to an increase in the diversity of society … integration challenges. This paper draws from a national project on international migration processes and their impact on rural …
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, romanians' tendency to emigrate increases with the opportunity to earn higher income. Migration among rural working-age people …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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usually mentioned as main reasons why remote and economically weak regions are affected by selective out-migration and … out-migration of young women from rural areas. This sex-biased out-migration has been ongoing for more than 40 years for … some rural regions in Sweden. This paper is a spin-off product from the ESPON-project SEMIGRA - Selective Migration and …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men … permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …
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