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Intimate partner violence and the business cycle
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Kambhampati, Uma S.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2018
We examine the impact of business cycle variation on intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. We distinguish male from female unemployment rates, identifying the influence of each conditional upon the other. We find that a...
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Children of the revolution : women's liberation and children's success
Maurin, Eric; Oliveira, Florentine - 2024
In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with information on the birth order of large samples of individuals, we show that the first to be affected by this revolution were the first-born of the early 1960s: they grew up much more...
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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359645
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Social factors affecting women's susceptibility to HIV in India
Lall, Priya - 2014
India is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV …-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult identify as a high … for HIV as part of the survey, it provides regional estimates of HIV serostatus for the general population in India …
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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125858
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Female labor force participation and child education in India : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124476
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104970
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women’s Labour Force Participation in India : A Re-Examination
Sen, Kunal - 2012
There has been a sharp fall in female labour force participation (LFP) in rural India between 2004-05 and 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108079