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Goal Setting and Raising the Bar: A Field Experiment
van Lent, Max; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017
We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
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Human Capital Formation: The Effect of a Miscarriage on Mental Health, Labour Market, and Family Outcomes
Rellstab, Sara; Bakx, Pieter; García-Gómez, Pilar - 2022
We investigate the effect of a miscarriage on mental health care use, labour market and family outcomes of women and their partners using Dutch linked ad- ministrative data. Miscarriages are common and largely random conditional on age. We estimate event study models using women with a completed...
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and not so Tall Women of India
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - eSocialSciences - 2011
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education: Gender Differences in Time Use among Children in Rural Bangladesh
Chandrasekhar, S.; Amin, Sajeda - eSocialSciences - 2010
regarding household influences on education. First, time spent in school is insensitive to factors such as poverty and gender …This paper addresses gender equity in parents‘ educational investments in children in a context of rising school … quality, attention should focus on household level private investments in education. By private investments we mean time …
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Inequalities Reinforced? Social Groups, Gender and Employment
N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2013
Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].
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Role of Collective Agency in Gender Rights
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2014
The fact that progress in equal rights for women has come about largely through the efforts of social reform movement in the 19th century and women’s liberation movement in the 20th century Maharashtra highlights the essential role of collective agency in human progress. Given the...
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Economic Survey 2005-06, Chapter 10
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006
Social Sectors
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Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms
Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal...
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National Human Development Report 2001
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and programmes it has to be anchored in a social context....
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