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The roots of female emancipation : from perennial cool water via pre-industrial late marriages to postindustrial gender equality

Santos Silva, Manuel; Alexander, Amy C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2017 - This version: November 2017

Reviewing the burgeoning literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for an overlooked trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the "Cool Water" (CW-) condition, from where the trajectory leads to (2) late female marriages...

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Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan

Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Rashid; Lorey, Thierry - 2023

In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women’s perspectives on gender preference associated with reproduction. We employ a number of...

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Female early marriage and son preference in Pakistan

Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Lorey, Thierry - 2023

In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference associated with reproduction. We employ a number of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288408

Growing up unwanted : girls' experiences of gender discrimination and violence in Tamil Nadu, India

Srinivasan, Sharada - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 26 (2014) 2, pp. 233-246

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Missing women in China and India over seven decades : an analysis of birth and mortality data from 1950 to 2020

Datt, Gaurav; Liu, Cun; Smyth, Russell - 2020

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Gender discrimination: causes, consequences and policies

Shikha - In: International journal of economic research 17 (2020) 2, pp. 177-185

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Missing women in China and India over seven decades : an analysis of birth and mortality data from 1950 to 2020

Datt, Gaurav; Liu, Cun; Smyth, Russell - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 9, pp. 1807-1830

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How does a ban on sex-selective abortions affect child health?

Dasgupta, Aparajita; Sharma, Anisha - In: Health economics 33 (2024) 2, pp. 280-309

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Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2024

in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for …

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Health Care Spending and Hidden Poverty in India

Keane, Michael P. - 2018

India has a high level of out-of-pocket (OOP) health care spending, and lacks well developed health insurance markets …, not as part of consumption. Adopting this perspective, we construct poverty and inequality measures for India that account …, are in a state of “hidden poverty” due to medical expenses. Furthermore, while poverty in India fell substantially from …

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