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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242330

Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237089

Does education really cause domestic violence? : replication and reappraisal of “For better or for worse? education and the prevalence of domestic violence in Turkey”

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2020

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390752

Two for the price of one? : the contribution to development of the new female elites

Wolf, Alison - 2010

to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into … developing economies. -- elites ; higher education ; women ; development ; economic history ; families …

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Children in left-behind migrant households : education and gender equality

Saleemi, Sundus - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind … various channels. Men's migration may lead to women taking over household decisions regarding education expenditures … changes in women's decision making is expected to operate via permanent migration when the men are absent. The effect of …

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Domestic Violence in Malawi : Does Education Empower Women?

Sovera, Alessandro - 2022

This paper investigates the causal link between education and domestic violence incidence through a Regression Discontinuity design, which exploits the 1994 Free Primary Education reform in Malawi. Using data from the 2015-16 of the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, I find that the reform...

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Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment : evidence from a large randomized control trial

Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Biroli, Pietro; … - 2017

We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting … perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women’s financial empowerment, increasing their control …

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