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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ–Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed—supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …
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We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …
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In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls' schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the...
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We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21...
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