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The Invisible Burden Gender Disparities and Their Cascading Impact on NCD Risks in Bangladeshi Women
Afroze, Farhana - 2024
Introduction: Bangladesh symbolizes how systematic gender bias impairs women's health. Economic instability, violence, mental health issues, and environmental vulnerability are all interconnected issues that exacerbate the socio-economic challenges women face in their day-to-day lives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214901
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Rural transformation since 1970s in Dokur Village of Andhra Pradesh, India
Reddy, A Amarender - 2013
In the past two decades, there are significant changes in rural India. There is some significant progress in reduction of poverty. This study examines the pathways by the Dokur villagers of Andhra Pradesh in India to survive and improve livelihoods in the face of a decade of persistent drought....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015226826
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Two cases of divorce in the town of Arad in the eighteenth century
Ghita, Eugen - 2011
marriage furniture, tools, animals, prices, food, secular and religious involvement of the private life etc. In addition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230310
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On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Out of print. Published originally by Westview Press in 1993 under name Grossbard-Shechtman
Grossbard, Shoshana - 1993
This book presents a theory that integrates marriage markets and labor markets (Part 2). She uses data, primarily from … individual and market labor supply and marital outcomes, including bargaining power, polygamy, marriage contract, divorce and … fertility. Parts 3 and 4 consider some implications of the theory for the study of sex ratio effects and compensating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257299
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An economic analysis of polygamy
Grossbard, Shoshana - 1976
predominantly Moslem city in northeastern Nigeria. This is the first econometric study of polygamy. It also uses economic theory to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257336
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Les motivations des femmes entrepreneures du secteur informel à Dakar (Sénégal)
DIA, Ibrahima - 2017
In developing countries and particular in Senegal the majority of women are poor. Microenterprises created by a part of these women, especially in the informal sector, qualitatively improve their lives and those of their families and arouse increasingly growing interest for public authorities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257421
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Women’s Jobs and Marriage: Baby-Boom versus Baby-Bust (Travail des Femmes et Mariage: du baby-boom au baby-bust)
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Granger, Clive - 1998
inspired this paper is Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman's economic theory of marriage which considers how marriage market forces …Studies of the determinants of labor supply do no typically include characteristics of the marriage market. What … influence individual value of time in marriage. From pioneering work by Louis Henry and others, we know that changes in cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257456
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Repack the Household: A Response to Robert Ellickson’s Unpacking the Household
Grossbard, Shoshana - 2007
I challenge the notion that households can be reduced to housing units. Ellickson, a law professor, overemphasized the desirability of ownership from the perspective of capital accumulation. Ownership is also important to the household members who do the work that maintains the household,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257506
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On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce.
Grossbard, Shoshana - 1993
This book presents a theory that integrates marriage markets and labor markets (Part 2). She uses data, primarily from … individual and market labor supply and marital outcomes, including bargaining power, polygamy, marriage contract, divorce and … fertility. Parts 3 and 4 consider some implications of the theory for the study of sex ratio effects and compensating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257720
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Women’s Jobs and Marriage: Baby-Boom versus Baby-Bust (Travail des Femmes et Mariage: du baby-boom au baby-bust)
Grossbard, Shoshana; Granger, Clive - 1998
inspired this paper is Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman's economic theory of marriage which considers how marriage market forces …Studies of the determinants of labor supply do no typically include characteristics of the marriage market. What … influence individual value of time in marriage. From pioneering work by Louis Henry and others, we know that changes in cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257744