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Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
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Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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has been closely intertwined with economic development. We aim to understand the drivers behind these reforms. To this end … over the past 50 years across countries. We summarize the political-economy mechanisms that link economic development to …
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Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women …, women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …
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Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...
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