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The Glorified Mothers of Sons : Evidence from Sex Composition and Parental Time Allocation in Rural China
Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye; Zhang, Junsen - 2022
We study the effects of sons versus daughters on parental joint time allocation between thelabor market and the household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We...
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Will Child Development Improve with Women's Empowerment in a Developing Country with a Narrowing Gender Gap? Insights from Rural Vietnam
Vo, Thang T. - 2018
This study investigates the influence of women's autonomy in households on health and education of children in rural … autonomy are more likely to have healthier and more educated children in rural Vietnam. The effects are positively larger in … alcohol and tobacco consumption and with a higher level of food consumption, which is believed to improve children's nutrition …
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Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice
Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009
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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Identity, household work, and subjective well-being among rural women in Bangladesh
Seymour, Greg; Floro, Maria Sagrario - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743241
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Gender differences in time poverty in rural Mozambique
Arora, Diksha - 2014
The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis....
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Assets, Decisionmaking, and Time Use : The Gendered Impacts of a Dairy Value-Chain Project in Rural Bangladesh
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Roy, Shalini - 2014
livestock and less time feeding and looking after young children …
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The impacts of parental migration on children's subjective well-being in rural China : a double-edged sword
Shen, Ke; Zhang, Yuan - In: Eurasian geography and economics 59 (2018) 2, pp. 267-289
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Heterogeneous Effects of Maternal Labor Market Participation on Nutritional Status of Children : Empirical Evidence From Rural India
Diiro, Gracious - 2014
effect of mother's work on child nutrition. In particular, the results suggest that it is children in the lower tail of the …; the effects are small and insignificant for children in the rest of the distribution …
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Childcare, household composition, Muslim ethnicity, and off-farm work in rural China
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: Feminist economics 24 (2018) 2, pp. 77-99
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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016
and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …
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