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allocate their earnings on joint consumption good, or on gender-specific private consumption good. Subjects’ consumption …
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This paper investigates changes in the gender wage gap in Bangladesh over the period 1999–2009. The gap in average … improvement in female educational qualifications. It also demonstrates that the gender wage gap across the wage distribution …
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Air pollution from household biomass combustion is an important cause of poor health in developing countries. This study employs national-level longitudinal data for up to 175 countries during 1990–2010 and finds that female labor force participation is associated with reductions in household...
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We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective.  In terms of gender inequality …, we find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership …
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We assess gender differences in 1526 nascent entrepreneurs (college students) across four countries to test a model of … entrepreneurial intentions incorporating gen-der, culture, and perceptions about entrepreneurship motives and barriers. In contrast to … model proves significant—we find support for hypotheses regarding the im-pact of gender, culture, and perceptions of motives …
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The visibility of striptease (‘lap dancing’) as a workplace and site of consumption has grown significantly over the past 15 years in the UK. This article draws on the first large scale study of stripping work in the UK, exploring original empirical data to examine why women...
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One of the most pressing issues contributing to the persistence of gender inequality is the gendered division of …€˜undoing’ gender. The article also identifies class differences in the ‘sharing’ of domestic work. …
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This article studies the gender gap in job satisfaction and argues that the observed gender difference is a consequence …, the observed gender satisfaction differential is eliminated once work orientations are taken into consideration. …
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poverty. This message is intimately related to another main goal of the institution: advancing gender equality. The shared … promoting equality of opportunity. The need to integrate gender considerations into the design of SSNs (and social protection … whether SSN interventions produce results and help to improve gender equality for men and women and boys and girls, either as …
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, such as mode choice, security, and travel patterns. A marginal influence on surveys to expand the data collected on gender … production of gender statistics in transportation in developing countries and the incorporation of gender differences into …
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