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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Measuring the Effect of Education and Influence on Female Employment and Empowerment:  Evidence from India
Autores: | Kandpal,   Eeshani; Baylis,   Katherine R.; Arends-Kuenning,   Mary.
Data: | 2012-05-21
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Consumer/Household Economics; International Development.
Resumo: | This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases access to employment, physical mobility, and political participation.  The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training.  We use truncation-corrected matching and instrumental variables on primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do not work but whose reservation wage is increased by participation.  We also find significant spillover effects on non-participants relative to women in untreated districts.  Using instrumental variables and matching, we find consistent estimates for average treatment and intent to treat effects.
Tipo: | Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/123705
Relação: | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association&gt;2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington
Formato: | 47