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gender inclusion in investment climate reform work. It is then divided into nine modules. Recognizing the socioeconomic … dimensions of gender-focused work, the core module outlines the broader, overarching framework within which gender … establishing appropriate baselines to facilitate the measurement of gender-informed changes in the business environment. The eight …
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This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic … growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender … in the growth-gender inequality relationship. The results confirm that greater gender inequality is strongly associated …
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Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated....
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Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex selection. This paper presents a novel approach that...
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This paper studies an innovative welfare program in Chile that combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program...
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Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural...
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average plots managed by women produce 19 percent less per hectare than plots managed by men. It also finds that the gender … gap tends to be widest among Niger's most productive farmers. The primary factors that contribute to the gender …
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