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This paper explores the role of social status in relationships between rich and poor in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities by analysing who goes to whose funerals in six resettled Zimbabwean villages. Funerals allow social status to be observed because non-attendance is a sign of...
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Based on data out of the 1970s, the "Heyneman-Loxley Effect" proposed that in developing countries, school characteristics were more important than family socioeconomic status in determining school achievement. In this paper, I reassess these findings using 2000s data on 14 sub-Saharan African...
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This paper explores the role of social status in relationships between richer and poorer households in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities by analysing who goes to whose funerals in six resettled Zimbabwean villages. Funerals allow social status to be observed because non-attendance is a...
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undermining it. Analysing newly available quarterly fiscal data on local revenues in Tanzania, I show that intergovernmental …
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paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …
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identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …
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