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The power of Lakshmi : monetary incentives for raising a girl
Biswas, Nabaneeta; Cornwell, Christopher Mark; … - 2021
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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The fertility-sex ratio trade-off : unintended consequences of financial incentives
Anukriti, S - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258158
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Have a son, gain a voice : son preference and female participation in household decision making
Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2018
socioeconomic impacts of phenomenon in case of China and India, work on other Asian countries is scarce. This study uses nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864191
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Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - 2010
at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278714
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777152
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Where have all the young girls gone? Identification of sex selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia; Cochrane, Tom - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010
at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782834
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Protecting girls from droughts with social safety nets
Chatterjee, Jagori; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290762
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020
India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence rejects the linear CEF, both in rural and urban … India, in favor of a concave relation. The girls face lower mobility irrespective of location in India when born to fathers … urban China, and urban and rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girls and unfavorable school …
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Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2021
, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …
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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021
, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496682