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household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of … resources within the family and find evidence that the time spent abroad by the male migrant increases gender inequality (by …
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Recently, gender-aware computable general equilibrium models (CGE) have been developed to analyse the impact of trade … liberalization, with focus on a gender-disaggregated analysis of the production side of the economy. However, these studies ignore … the gender-specific consumption effects due to the paucity of gender disaggregated data. We introduce intra …
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This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...
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Whether gender-targeted cash transfers effectively redistribute resources to women and children in poor households … estimations points to a significant increase in resource shares for eligible women in rural areas - where traditional gender norms …
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This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the …
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gender norms. …
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In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
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In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430651
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...
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whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender …-specific attitudes prevalent in the society, and highlight existing gender inequality traps. …
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