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Effects of extending paid parental leave on children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...

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The Threat of Domestic Violence and Women Empowerment: The Case of West Africa

Voia, Marcel-Cristian; Diallo, Saikou Amadou - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2013

In this paper we assess the significance of a set of threats of domestic violence in ten West African countries that we argue limit the potential of women in particular and the development of society. Our data consists of the most recent year of a country-specific Demographic and Health Survey...

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Gender inequality in a globalizing world

Seguino, Stephanie - 2005

Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...

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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth in Spain: An Exploratory Analysis

Dominguez Martin, Rafael; Guijarro Garvi, Marta - In: The Review of Regional Studies 39 (2009) 1, pp. 23-48

indices of gender inequality--the Relative Status of Women and the Gender Inequality Index. An analysis of the relationship …

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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development - Correcting for ââ‚¬ËœMissing Womenââ‚¬â„¢

Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the genders enter the formulation of these indicators in such a way that it favours the better performing gender. This can lead to...

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Gender-based indicators in human development: Correcting for missing women

Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2008

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...

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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills: Is Latin America different?

Lopez Boo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

to cognitive ability are generally consistent across family background groups, personality traits have very different …

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Lifetime inequality and redistribution

Brewer, Mike; Dias, Monica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime … perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …

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