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Intrahousehold health care financing strategy and the gender gap : empirical evidence from India

Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008

The "missing women" dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … meager resources on hospitalization of boys rather than girls. We use the 60th Indian National Sample Survey and a … that while the gap in the probability of boys' and girls' hospitalization and usage of household income and savings is …

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Closing Gender Gaps in India : Does Increasing Womens' Access to Finance Help?

Khera, Purva - 2018

higher female entrepreneurship andemployment, which boosts India's output by 1.6 percent. However, regulations and gender … formal sector employment could boost India's output by 6.8percent …

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Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?

Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018

effects of women's local electoral success on subsequent female candidacy at higher levels of government in India from 1977 to …

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Gender norms and the motherhood penalty : experimental evidence from India

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Majilla, Tanmoy; Rieger, Matthias - 2018

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market. We randomly reported motherhood on fictitious CVs sent to service sector job openings. We generated exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling...

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Women's rights and the gender migration gap

Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap (GMG) using data on 158 origin and 37 destination countries over the period 1961-2019. We estimate a gravity equation derived from a random utility maximization model of...

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