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the timing of fertility. However, the positive impact of development on fertility is conditional on gender equality …: countries that rank high in development as measured by health, income, and education, but low in gender equality, continue to …
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We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 percent in mature adulthood. Health is the most...
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fertility – general socioeconomic development, per capita income, and gender equality – are all positively correlated with … fertility for the 1970s cohorts. Gender equality, however, emerges as the strongest determinant: where the gap in economic …
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and Gender Program. We develop guidelines for data collection by identifying the main focus, the key dimensions as well as …
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Database of the Generations and Gender Program aims at responding to the new data demands by providing a comparative collection … the Generations and Gender Survey. …
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The old age population in developed countries has been increasing remarkably, yet internationally comparable high quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age...
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There is one unique age separating early deaths from late deaths such that averting an early death decreases life disparity, but averting a late death increases inequality in lifespans.
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This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender differentials in the historical period that … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
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economic development. Gender equality is an inherent part of Aid for Trade. This has also been reflected in the Buenos Aires … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment … through Aid for Trade * Donors and partner countries have been devoting increasing attention to gender dimensions in Aid for …
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This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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