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The practice of women eating after men is a common gender-inequitable food allocation mechanism that has been … with larger family sizes, there is also evidence of the interplay between family size and gender composition of children …. Our results allude to the literature on the intersectionality between gender and other dimensions of inequality, namely …
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institutionalization and homelessness, especially among men and as a result there are stark gender ratio imbalances among this population …. We speculate that this gender imbalance may play a role in excess female mortality in addition to several other …
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Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...
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This paper explains the gender differences in self-assessed health status by providing a theoretical identification … accounting for heterogeneity in individual discount factors explains a significant portion of the gender gap in self …
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Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes...
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This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to … the ranking in the gender pay gap, where Germany has also the highest gender difference. The authors also investigate …
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This essay disentangles the inequalities in the take-up of non-standard work by gender as well as the gender …
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Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in … a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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Demographics in Malaysia and Viet Nam are evolving rapidly, potentially disrupting traditional family support to older people. We estimate a set of Poisson random effects models with panel data from the Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey and the Viet Nam Aging Survey to analyze how living...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was a landmark piece of legislation that prohibited private-sector employers from discriminating against qualified disabled workers. Although the Act is over a quarter-century old, legal scholars have never considered whether the Act has been...
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