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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East …
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This paper employs a hurdle model approach to ask whether the extent of gender bias in education expenditure within … rural households in India changed over time from 1995 to 2017-18. Our most striking finding is that there has been a change … over time in the way that gender bias is practiced within the household. In 1995, gender bias occurred through a …
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We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family …, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …
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This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …
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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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The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is …
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concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China …We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …
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