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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884322
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888372
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - eSocialSciences - 2013
An innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar was introduced 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 survey, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945551
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Women in the IT sector: Is there an English language premium?
Chandramohan, B.P.; Gajanan, Shailendra N.; Muthulakshmi, B. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 378-389
education. We track women employees in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and …
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Tupperware: achieving sustainable development goals through elevating socio-economic status of women in India
Singh, Harjit; Aggarwal, Nikunj - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 13 (2012) 1, pp. 18-27
It has been two decades since India embarked on an ambitious programme on uplifting women's socio economic status. Over … direct selling. Direct selling in India, today is considered as a sunrise industry after agriculture with almost all the big …-economic development of women. What difficulties Tupperware faced while entering into India and the strategies adopted by it to establish …
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Suicide and Property Rights in India
Anderson, Siwan; Genicot, Garance - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568017
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Photovoltaics: socio-economic impact and policy implications.
DV, Smith - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1985
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, cost benefit analysis of solar energy power generation in developing countries - discusses economic implications of choice of technology and its impact on irrigation, the household, and community electric power distribution; considers the role of USA development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965972
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Gender inequality and development strategies: lessons from the past and policy issues for the future.
S, Klasen - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993
Outlines the effects of development policies on gender inequality in developing countries from the early 1980s to 1992, and sets out an agenda for the 1990s.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966857
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Rural energy crisis, women's work and family welfare: perspectives and approaches to action.
E, Cecelski - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1984
Working paper on the relationship between the rural energy crisis, particularly fuelwood, rural women's work and family welfare in developing countries. Examines household labour utilization in fuel procurement, including sexual division of labour and child labour. Studies the effects of fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966878
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Socio-economic impact of rural electrification in developing countries: a review of evidence.
F, Fluitman - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub-WEP pub. Literature survey of the economic implications and social implications of rural area electrification in developing countries and its role in rural development - deals with power generation, power consumption, use and cost benefit analysis of electricity and its impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967192