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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China

Li, Hongbin - 2015

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …

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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo

Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020

Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...

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Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment : Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings

Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert - 2022

Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey this paper examines the relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18-64 in 2018. A simple theoretical model is...

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The Gender Education Gap in China : The Power of Water

Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2009

household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

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Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity : The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China

Xing, Chunbing - 2019

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities …

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Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Chen, Zeyuan - 2015

2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural … elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement …

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The Effect of Village-Based Schools : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

Burde, Dana - 2012

We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21...

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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2014

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...

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Peer Gender and Schooling : Evidence from Ethiopia

Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2022

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...

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