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We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …
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the case for households with temporary migrants, suggesting that women's decision participation decreases gender … children's education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households … various channels. Men's migration may lead to women taking over household decisions regarding education expenditures …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …
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market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …
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migrant women in Germany. Considering the well-established evidence that immigrant women work less than natives, with statuses … market theory, and the less examined in German research cultural hypothesis. Migrant women's employment status is, in … be less reliable predictors of women's labor supply: higher education attained abroad is only marginally related to women …
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improves school attendance of young and teenage girls, but reduces school attendance of young women (ages 18-22). We also find … members may affect girls' and young women’s education: relaxation of budget constraints, increase in household work, change in …' schooling turns from positive to negative with girls' age; this implies that migration may be detrimental to women’s empowerment …
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