the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …

significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on child education is complicated by the likelihood that factors … influencing parental migration also affect child educational attainment. This paper exploits variation in siblings' ages at the … time of parental migration to get around this endogeneity problem, arguing that parental migration after a child is 20 …

also has a persistent effect on gender equality by empowering women’s careers …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can …. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, a household labor market specialization index is created. Raw two-limit Tobit …