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Brecha de género en la universidad, productivismo y tecnologías de la información

Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena - 2019

´(ILO, 2016) estimates that it will take at least 70 years to close the gender pay gap. From this general framework of …

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Unintended bottleneck and essential nonlinearity: Understanding the effects of public primary school expansion on intergenerational educational mobility

Ahsan, Md Nazmul; Shilpi, Forhad; Emran, Shahe - 2022

educated fathers irrespective of gender. But relative mobility in the college educated households worsened, strengthening the … striking gender differences: the strong effects on sons remain largely unchanged, but there are no significant effects on girls …

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Development of Grounded Theory in Social Sciences: A Qualitative Approach

Mohajan, Devajit; Mohajan, Haradhan - 2022

Grounded theory (GT) is a general research method that provides the efficient generation of theory from data, which are collected by a strong, sound, and fair research method. It is an inductive methodology that systematically collects and analyzes data for developing theory on human behavior in...

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Unintended bottleneck and essential nonlinearity: Understanding the effects of public primary school expansion on intergenerational educational mobility

Ahsan, Md Nazmul; Shilpi, Forhad; Emran, Shahe - 2022

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Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Ahsan, Md Nazmul; Shilpi, Forhad; Emran, Shahe - 2023

primary completion suggests contrasting effects across the distribution: relative mobility improved irrespective of gender in … striking gender differences, with strong effects on sons, but no significant effects on girls. This surprising finding reflects …, while the boys reaped a 7.7 percentage points gain. The gender-based crowding out occurred across the board, suggesting …

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Global Perspectives on Gender Sensitivity and Economic Benefits

Jackson, Emerson Abraham - 2020

Gender sensitivity is a common language at use in all areas of working life, and this has come clear through caution … at both national and global level. A call by the then UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon in support of gender equality … (see quotation below) attested strongly to the need for ensuring gender equality is placed at the centre of world politics …

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Does Education Empower Women? Evidence from Indonesia

Samarakoon, Sujani; Parinduri, Rasyad - 2014

This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the number of live births, increases contraceptive use, and...

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Influence of Electricity Access on Gender: Evidences from Nepal

Murali, Rashmi; Brahmachari, Deborshi; Govindan, Mini - 2019

Access to modern energy has been found to especially benefit rural women, in terms of reducing their drudgery and increasing their efficiency of time use. This paper draws from the findings of a primary household survey and qualitative study in Nepal in order to analyse how access to modern...

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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society

Namasaka, Martin - 2015

. Consequently, the process of the transition, presents an interesting reduction in gender differentiation (Davis, Van den Oever … the process, however this by no means the end of the story in improvements to issues such as gender equality. …

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Gender Bias in Educational Attainment in India : The Role of Dowry Payments

Jacob, Arun - 2016

This paper explores the linkages between dowry payments and educational attainment of women. It formulates an unitary household model that captures how these linkages can potentially impact the educational investment decisions within a household. Based on existing literature and the theoretical...

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