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India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares …
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The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the … reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … current intra-household gender-disparities in getting medical care at least for life threatening illnesses …
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This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender … budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality … framework for assessing the effect of gender budgeting. States with gender budgeting efforts have made more progress on gender …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East … Millionen fehlenden Frauen insgesamt), dass sie in Indien bei Erwachsenen ebenso schwerwiegend ist wie bei Kindern und dass sie …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East …
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This study examines the historical origins of son preference. I test a hypothesis that son preference emerges from humanity’s adoption of intensive agriculture for subsistence. This increases the incentive to adopt patrilocal residence norms after marriage, and for sons to care for their...
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This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …
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assaults and domestic violence in India, we show that a smaller gender gap in earning potential is associated with more rapes …Male backlash, which we define as a hostile response to female empowerment in a gender biased society, drives crime … and indecent assaults. This relationship is exacerbated in states with high gender bias, pointing away from increased …
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The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … previously found (4-5 million excess female deaths per year), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, is …
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