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Sons as Widowhood Insurance : Evidence from Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Rossi, Pauline - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2014

Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until...

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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...

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Child Labor And Schooling In Bolivia: Who’s Falling Behind? The Roles Of Domestic Work, Gender And Ethnicity

Contreras, Dante; Kruger, Daniela; Zapata, Daniela - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007

decisions. We find that a tradeoff exists and that gender and ethnicity matter. Boys are more likely to work if pure market …

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Child labor and schooling in Bolivia: Who’s falling behind?

Guajardo, Dante Contreras; Kruger, Diana; Zapata, Daniela - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007

decisions. We find that a tradeoff exists and that gender and ethnicity matter. Boys are more likely to work if pure market …

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Subsidy to Promote Girls' Secondary Education: The Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur; Pitt, Mark; Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Secondary school enrollment rates in the developing countries are usually lower for girls than boys, especially in rural areas. In the mid 1990’s a female school stipend program was introduced to subsidize girls’ secondary education in rural Bangladesh. Although all of rural Bangladesh was...

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The determinants of schooling investments of rural Filipino households, 1985-2002

Estudillo, Jonna P.; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Philippine Review of Economics 41 (2004) 1, pp. 1-29

This paper aims to investigate the demand-side factors affecting the schooling progression of Filipino children of school age, using household panel data collected over a span of 17 years. The following patterns emerge: (1) daughters complete more years of schooling than sons; (2) parental...

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The Bangladesh gender gap in education : biased intra-household educational expenditures

Shonchoy, Abu S.; Rabbani, Mehnaz - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

exists any gender specific discrepancy at the household level and the trend of such discrepancy over the years. Using three … components, we find persistent gender imbalance in educational expenditure where households provide better quality of education … for boys. Moreover, we find that gender based discrepancy has a very persistent trend and does not show any significant …

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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens : Comment

Stark, Oded - 2021

In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...

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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources

Antman, Francisca M. - 2015

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …

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Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources

Antman, Francisca M. - 2015

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …

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