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The effect of male migration for work on employment patterns of females in Nepal

Lokshin, Michael - 2008

"This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal. Using data from the 2004 Nepal household survey, the authors apply the Instrumental Variable Full Information Maximum Likelihood method to account for unobserved factors that...

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The women's devlopment program in Rajasthan : a case study in group formation for women's development

Das, Maitreyi - 1992

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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program : quasi-experimental evidence from India

Pandey, Vivek; Gupta, Abhishek; Gupta, Shivani - 2019

Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. However, the evidence on the impact of such...

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The social lives of married women : peer effects in female autonomy and investments in children

Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy - 2019

-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends …' empowerment on a woman's autonomy, specifically physical mobility, access to social safety nets, and employment outside the … for endogenous network formation using a woman's age and her caste network in the village. The key peer effect is the …

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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019

The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....

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Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature

Roy, Sanchari - 2019

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...

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"She helps me all the time" : underestimating women's economic engagement in rural Honduras

Muller, Miriam; Sousa, Liliana D. - 2020

This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic activities, including production for own consumption,...

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Intimate partner violence : the influence of job opportunities for men and women

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Kambhampati, Uma S.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2020

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of...

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The economic lives of young women in the time of Ebola : lessons from an empowerment program

Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple economic disadvantages. The intervention provides them with a protective space (a club) where they can find support, receive...

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Can mothers afford to work in Poland : labor supply incentives of social benefits and childcare costs

Bargu, Ali; Morgandi, Matteo - 2018

This paper analyzes the incentives to labor supply faced by families, particularly mothers, with young children in the context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's...

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