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This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...
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Previous economic downturns such as the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis disproportionately affected male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g., manufacturing). However, after the imposition of the 'hard' COVID-19 lockdown between 2020 quarter 1 and 2...
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative … interest from suitors relative to those in 'feminine' occupations. Our results highlight the strong effect of gender norms and … patriarchy on marital preferences, especially for men hailing from higher castes and northern India, where communities have more …
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and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …
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relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women …, female education and per capita monthly expenditure of households as well as by social groups. We find evidence of gender …
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Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0-6 in India and its … until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India …
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. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India, even when parents do not treat boys …
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