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The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in India: How Much Can Be Explained?

Kingdon, G. Gandhi - In: Journal of Development Studies 39 (2002) 2, pp. 25-53

Differential treatment of sons and daughters by parents is a potential explanation of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests this explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. We estimate educational...

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Gender Disparity in Completing School Education in India over Regions

Husain, Zakir - In: Journal of Research in Educational Sciences I (2010) 2, pp. 75-75

Is gender disparity in education greater in North India? This paper seeks to answer this question by examining gender differences in probability of completing school education across regions in India. A Gender Disparity Index is calculated using National Sample Survey Organization unit level...

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Gender disparities in completing school education in India: Analyzing regional variations

Husain, Zakir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Is gender disparity greater in North India? This paper seeks to answer this question by examining gender differences in probability of completing school education across regions in India. A Gender Disparity Index is calculated using National Sample Survey Organization unit level data from the...

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Cross-national analysis of gender differences in job satisfaction

Laetitia, HAURET; WILLIAMS Donald R. - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2013

Research over the past two decades has found significant gender differences in subjective job-satisfaction, with the result that women report greater satisfaction than men in some countries. This paper examines the so-called “gender paradox” using data from the European Social Survey for a...

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Is there a Double-Negative Effect? Gender and Ethnic Wage Differentials

Piazzalunga, Daniela - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2013

This paper investigates the gender and ethnic wage differentials for female immigrants, applying the Oaxaca decomposition to estimate the level of discrimination. The gender pay gap is quite small (7.42%), but it's not explained by observable differences, whilst the ethnic wage gap is larger...

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Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewal

Bauwin, Mathilde; Jbili, Walid - 2017

, initial inequalities cannot be counterbalanced. …

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Influence of gender determinants on informal care and health service utilization in Spain: Ten years after the approval of the equality law

Sánchez-Recio, Raquel; García-Ael, Cristina; Topa, … - In: Administrative Sciences 11 (2021) 2, pp. 1-21

The existence of gender inequalities in health, in the use of health services, and in the development of informal care … between men and women. Despite this, different studies have shown that the previous gender inequalities are still present in … the use of emergency care, and to identify the existence of gender inequalities in Spain 10 years after the adoption of …

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Gender gaps in employment, wages, and work hours: Assessment of COVID-19 implications

Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

three domains. Our results suggest that, while the evolution of inequalities mirrored the infection rate development …

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Empirical analysis of teachers' gender and secondary school students' academic performance

Odunaike, K. O.; Ijaduola, K. O.; Amoda, M. B. - 2013

This study analysed teachers’ gender and the academic performance in Business Education subjects among secondary school students in Ijebu-ode, Ogun state, Nigeria. 8 (eight) senior secondary schools were randomly selected from the 13(thirteen) secondary schools in the township. 40(forty)...

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Consuming stress : exploring hidden dimensions of consumption-related strain at the intersection of gender and poverty

Hutton, Martina - In: Journal of marketing management : MM 31 (2015) 15/16, pp. 1695-1717

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