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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal
Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017
the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …
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Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply : evidence from Viet Nam
Beck, Ulrik; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2016
Volatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture. We combine a time series of international coffee prices with a long-running panel on coffee-growing households in Viet Nam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447335
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Women's labour supply and household insurance in Africa
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2012
household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis. Using comparable individual data on about 0.5 million women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009563381
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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay …
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The power to choose : gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti - 2016
We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of … that having a pension-eligible individual in the household increases the probability of working by 3.2 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240357
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on household work decisions in Ghana
Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, Eric; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2014
A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households' supply of labour for agriculture, paid employment, and...
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122672
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Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil
Codazzi, Karen; Pero, Valéria; Sant'Anna, André - 2017
Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and the difference in labour force participation persist. Akerlof and Kranton introduce the concept of identity from sociology and social psychology at the economic analysis; based...
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