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The link between malnutrition and poor health among elementary school children and absenteeism, early dropout and poor classroom performance as well as the effectiveness of school-based nutrition and health interventions in improving school performance are well-established in the literature....
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relationship to gender equality within and outside the household. UK quantitative research on the domestic division of labour … groups for meaningful comparisons. We find significant variations in patterns of domestic labour by ethnic group, gender …
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Bioenergy is a major source of energy in developing countries. However, increasing demand for agricultural commodities can lead to a stronger competition for natural resources with the bioenergy production. The nexus among energy, food production and natural resource use may result in trade-offs...
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It has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change are not gender neutral. However, existing studies on … gender analysis, this study examines how husbands and wives within the same household perceive climate risks and group …-related strategies. Besides, there are gender-specific climate information needs, gendered trust of information and preferred channels of …
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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …
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simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …
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Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines …
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Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature … increases the academic achievement of all students. Nevertheless, the identification of pure gender effects remains a challenge … paper disentangles pure "academic" peer effects and "gender" peer effects. Our estimations reveal that the higher the share …
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, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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