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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This …
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This essay explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology which took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for the relatively new field of economic sociology. Drawing on historical documents and feminist...
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While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We propose a simple utility framework - which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms, and personal norms - and design a novel two-part experiment to...
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Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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following sections: Section I sets out the meaning and implications of the right to education. Section II examines the extent to … which the realities of our elementary education system and the normative content of government policy in this regard match … the requirements of the right to education. Section III takes a comprehensive look at the provisions of the Bill and …
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of the basic questions such as what ought to be the purpose of education?’ This paper addresses these and other issues. …
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