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Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
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limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo …
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of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we …
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We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …
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substantial benefits from schooling regardless of whether they enter the labor market. Our estimates reveal that the return to … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent … return to schooling in the labor market. By using birth order, sibship size, percent of male siblings, and parental education …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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, a large pre-existing gender digital divide in India has further exacerbated the problem of access to information and … ramifications for female education, drop-out rate and employment. Experts are calling for targeted action to counter this gender … paper is to explore the gender aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India and its impact on Indian economy and …
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and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …
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We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
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