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exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human …
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data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the … reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …'s propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood relative. Exposure to the reform altered women's preferences in favor of personal …
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exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human …
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This paper investigates the causal link between education and domestic violence incidence through a Regression … Discontinuity design, which exploits the 1994 Free Primary Education reform in Malawi. Using data from the 2015-16 of the Malawi … Demographic and Health Survey, I find that the reform causes an increase of 0.9 years of education and 13 percentage points in …
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found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long …-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …
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labor effort, schooling allocations, income, consumption, agricultural investments, and crop output. Women and children work …. Consistent with posited channels of intrahousehold bargaining models, women from households assigned to the joint saving …
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, non-HBCU or no four year institution. Models are then estimated separately for men and women. Men and women both benefit … population of men than women. …
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This paper considers the educational consequences of the increased ability of young women to delay childbearing as a … of approximately three quarters of a percentage point among women over the age of thirty. Finally, I analyze the outcomes …
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