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This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722299
This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160228
empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884093
empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157025
empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women’s well-being. However, empirical work on the … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women’s employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women’s work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205552
children's education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households … the case for households with temporary migrants, suggesting that women's decision participation decreases gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012522871
Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...
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The inclusion of women into the financial system promotes economic development. However, in Nigeria, women face disproportionate financial exclusion. The main purpose of this study was to examine the role of financial inclusion in women's economic empowerment within the Nigerian context....
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This study reviews the conceptual framework of the economic-productive sphere and of gender equality, the aim of which … opportunities and in rights can be harmonized, though equality of "responsibilities, resources and retribution" by gender are more … difficult to reconcile. Also, women's (economic) empowerment - seen as a way of promoting gender equality - possesses a degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480855
Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
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