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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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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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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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, romanians' tendency to emigrate increases with the opportunity to earn higher income. Migration among rural working-age people …
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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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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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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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This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
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