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Expanding social protection in developing countries: A gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

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Women, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines

DeSilva, Sanjaya; Bin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab - 2011

Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...

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From unpaid to paid care work: the macroeconomic implications of HIV and AIDS on women's time-tax burdens

Antonopoulos, Rania; Toay, Taun N. - 2009

This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...

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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the …

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The curse of bad geography: Stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital

Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023

Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...

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When Crime Tears Communities Apart: Social Capital and Organised Crime

Calamunci, Francesca Maria; Frattini, Federico Fabio - 2023

What is the long-term effect of organised crime presence on social capital accumulation? By leveraging novel social capital and organised crime data, this study investigates this question within the Italian landscape. In an instrumental variable (IV) setting, we exploit the forced resettlement...

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Unequal gradients: Sex, skin tone, and intergenerational economic mobility

Monroy-Gómez-Franco, Luis; Vélez Grajales, Roberto; … - 2023

We study how the intersection between skin tone and sex shapes intergenerational mobility of economic resources in Mexico. Using two recent social mobility surveys, we estimate the rank persistence and transition matrices by sex combined with skin tone groups. First, we find no differences in...

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Revisiting the educational effects of fetal lodine deciency

Bengtsson, Niklas; Peterson, Stefan; Sävje, Fredrik - 2013

Recent research has reported positive effects on schooling due to in utero protection from iodine deficiency resulting from iodized oil capsule distribution in Tanzania. We revisit the Tanzanian experience by investigating how these effects differ over time and across surveys; across different...

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