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/methodology/approach We conduct a social experiment at a University in Southeastern Brazil, applying the gender-STEM Implicit Association Test …
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India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap,...
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Today 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass as primary cooking fuel, with profound negative implications for their well-being. Improved biomass cooking stoves are alleged to counteract these adverse effects. This paper evaluates take-up and impacts of low-cost improved...
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greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …
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level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and …
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household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous …
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from India, we find evidence of positive effects of women’s age at marriage on their own and their spouses’ labor market …
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Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son …
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