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Mothers' status, food price shock and child nutrition in Karnataka
Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018
Women's empowerment is increasingly put forth as a mean to promote child development. However, little empirical research has evaluated the pathways of women empowerment leading to it. This paper uses a household survey conducted in Karnataka, South India to explore the impact of female status on...
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Guaranteed Employment in Rural India : Richer Households, Poorer Women?
García, Jorge Luis - 2022
Female labor force participation increased worldwide between 1990 and 2015. In India, it decreased 22% from a low rate of 37%. Rural married women drove the decrease, which began right after the implementation of a policy guaranteeing employment for rural households. I document the following....
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Maternal employment in high-value agriculture and child nutrition : evidence from the Ethiopian cut-flower industry
Melaku, Astewale Bimr; Qaim, Matin; Legesse Debela, … - 2023
from Ethiopia to investigate the effects of women's employment in floriculture on child nutrition, focusing on children …
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The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality : a technical articulation for Asia-Pacific
Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016
Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...
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Gender wage disparity and economic prosperity in Pakistan
Javed, Maria Faiq; Jadoon, Atif Khan; Malik, Ayesha; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
The present study is designed to examine the relationship between wage inequalities and economic prosperity in the case of Pakistan. Using provincial-level data for the years 2000 to 2020, the study estimated a multivariate regression model by employing Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL)...
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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply : the case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen (contributor); Kimmel, Jean (contributor) - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796331
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2019
generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902668
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Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply : The Case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765218
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Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia : a gendered life-course perspective
Admasu, Yeshwas; Crivello, Gina; Porter, Catherine - 2021
We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative … the labour force in Ethiopia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545484
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Menstruation hygiene management and work attendance in a developing country
Krenz, Astrid; Strulik, Holger - 2019
Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...
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