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, increasing women's power would lead to a worsening of gender discrimination against girls. This is likely the result of deeply …
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This study examines how quality, price, and access to curative health care influence use of modern public, modern private, and traditional providers among 3,000 children age 0-2 years in Cebu, Philippines. The analysis relies on a series of household, community, and health facility surveys...
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"One in three pre school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their human rights are …
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Early childhood nutrition is thought to be an important input into subsequent academic achievement. This paper investigates the nutrition-learning nexus using a unique longitudinal data set, which follows a large sample of Philippine children from birth until the end of their primary education....
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"This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three … landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap … in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such …
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. In contrast, female migrants with no intention of returning to the Sierra play the role of insurers. The gender …
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that allows for such heterogeneity and for disaggregation of resource control by gender contributes to a better …
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This paper presents new evidence on the association between gender and poverty based on an empirical analysis of 11 …
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of a range of stakeholders from both developed and developing countries on the value of—and constraints related to—gender … agricultural strategies to improve nutrition and underline the importance of gender-sensitive approaches. The viewpoints differ … agriculture and gender-sensitive strategies to improve nutrition. These areas of agreement can serve as a foundation for forging …
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Most discussions on bargaining also say little about gender relations beyond the household, and about the links between …
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