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Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia

Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Prakash, Nishith; Steinert, … - 2025

This study examines the five-year impacts of a bicycle distribution program for adolescent girls in rural Zambia, implemented across 91 schools as part of a randomized controlled trial. While the program increased girls' self-reported empowerment and reduced experiences of domestic and intimate...

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The Effect of Child Care Costs on Gender Inequality

Casarico, Alessandra; Del Rey, Elena; Silva, José Ignacio - 2022

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that prevents some households from paying child care. We show that this liquidity constraint generates an inefficiency and amplifies gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an...

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Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019)

Heer, Burkhard - 2019

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...

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Physiological Constraints and Comparative Economic Development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …

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Froebel's Gifts: How the Kindergarten Movement Changed the American Familiy

Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

. Households reduced fertility because kindergarten attendance increased returns to education, but it also led to higher … early childhood education for the integration of immigrant families. …

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Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls' Lives with Bicycles

Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; … - 2022

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Some major challenges for many girls include …

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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