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"Dimensions of the nature, scope, and complexity of collective action in Kenya have evolved over many years. In studying collective action, the aim is to understand why and how people participate in networks of trust. The purpose of this study was to investigate the different objectives that...
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This paper uses three-generation retrospective data from the rural Philippines to examine the role of the extended family, proxied by alternative measures of grandparent coresidence, on investments in children. An extension of the wealth model of intergenerational transfers shows that extended...
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DWS data to examine how the difference in wage losses across plant closings and layoffs varies with race and gender. We … demonstrate that the racial and gender effects are surprisingly robust to region, industry, and occupation controls. To look at …
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Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by...
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging − one with higher subjective well-being for men. …
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The relationship between gender and technology has been explored for several decades. Consistently, the field of … technological work as an almost exclusively masculine domain. In this paper I treat technology and gender as mutually constitutive …, and illustrate this assumption with a case in which gender was re-constructed through the use of computers in physics …
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"TA mixed-methods, multiple-stage approach was used to obtain data on how gender and wealth affected participation in … types of groups included household composition, age, and gender. Women made up 59 percent of the dairy-goat group (DGG … percent of secretary positions, and 30 percent of chairperson positions. Gender also influenced participation in clan groups …
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"This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender; i.e. how gender … collective action can be used as a vehicle for gender equity. We begin with definitions of the key concepts and then present … three entry points for a gendered analysis of collective action-motivations, effectiveness, and impact on gender equity- vis …
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"This paper analyzes how women's participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India's flagship program to...
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