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, migration, gender and wealth data and combine this with secondary sources on the location and timing of the conflict. Depending …
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, migration, gender and wealth data and combine this with secondary sources on the location and timing of the conflict. Depending …
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Microfinance industry has grown massively in the past decades. Even if it is commonly considered as an importantdevelopment tool, the evidence of the socio-economic impact of microfinance is mixed, regardless of what methodology hasbeen applied. The purpose of this study is to assess the...
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of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
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, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …
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In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing …
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quantity-quality trade-offs, and they do not differ significantly by gender …
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of economic transactions. We contribute to this literature by investigating gender differences in behavior when … confronted with a common bribery problem. Our study departs from the previous literature on gender and corruption by using … show that while women in Australia are less tolerant of corruption than men in Australia, there are no significant gender …
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This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to default of both group and individual micro … August 2017 to August 2021. Our unconditional estimates show that gender disparities matter economically only for group loans …
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