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Closing Gender Gaps in India : Does Increasing Womens' Access to Finance Help?
Khera, Purva - 2018
higher female entrepreneurship andemployment, which boosts India's output by 1.6 percent. However, regulations and gender … formal sector employment could boost India's output by 6.8percent …
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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India (revised)
Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
paper, we use primary data from India, collected via a life history calendar administered to men and women separately. Using … like India, characterised by informal labour markets, and early age of childbirth, the impact of motherhood on employment …
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Gender, Crime and Punishment : Evidence from Women Police Stations in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia; Prakash, Nishith - 2021
We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...
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Don't cross the line : bounding the causal effect of hypergamy violation on domestic violence in India
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dhamija, Gaurav - 2022
that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of …
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Gender, crime and punishment: evidence from women police stations in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021
We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494817
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Gender, crime and punishment : evidence from women police stations in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021
We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499651
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Political role models, child marriage, and women's autonomy over marriage in India
Castilla, Carolina - 2017
Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for …
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Population sex ratios and violence against women : the long-run effects of sex selection in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017
This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740636
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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India
Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - 2021
penalty . In the developing country context, and specifically for India, similar studies are limited, primarily due to the … that, in a developing country context such as India s, motherhood may not be accompanied by a penalty in terms of labour …
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Women's workforce participation and spousal violence : insights from India
Biswas, Arpita; Thampi, Anjana - 2021
-being? Our study examines this relationship using a nationally representative dataset from India. Given vast heterogeneity among …
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