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The effect of male migration for work on employment patterns of females in Nepal

Lokshin, Michael - 2008

"This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal. Using data from the 2004 Nepal household survey, the authors apply the Instrumental Variable Full Information Maximum Likelihood method to account for unobserved factors that...

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The women's devlopment program in Rajasthan : a case study in group formation for women's development

Das, Maitreyi - 1992

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Opportunity versus necessity : understanding the heterogeneity of female micro-entrepreneurs

Calderon, Gabriela; Iacovone, Leonardo; Juarez, Laura - 2016

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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program : quasi-experimental evidence from India

Pandey, Vivek; Gupta, Abhishek; Gupta, Shivani - 2019

Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. However, the evidence on the impact of such...

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Full esteem ahead? : mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Frese, Michael; … - 2019

Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes, behaviors, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in business such as motivation, perseverance, and self-confidence? This study conducted two randomized controlled trials...

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The social lives of married women : peer effects in female autonomy and investments in children

Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy - 2019

-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends …' empowerment on a woman's autonomy, specifically physical mobility, access to social safety nets, and employment outside the … for endogenous network formation using a woman's age and her caste network in the village. The key peer effect is the …

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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019

The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....

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Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature

Roy, Sanchari - 2019

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...

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Crossovers : female entrepreneurs who enter male sectors : evidence from Ethiopia

Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Papineni, Sreelakshmi; … - 2017

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Promoting women's economic empowerment : what works?

Buvinić, Mayra; Furst-Nichols, Rebecca - 2014

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