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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284016
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The Indian ultrasound paradox
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2012
India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences of the expansion of prenatal ultrasound use on sex-selection. We … exploit state-by-cohort variation in ultrasound use in India as a unique quasi-experiment. We find that sex-selective abortion …-selection in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282222
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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276696
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
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Health and the political agency of women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286864
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Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima
Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Salgado, Edgar; … - 2018
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
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Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomesand the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861194
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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Training in Europe
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261638