Essays In Development Economics And Economics Of Gender
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Essays In Development Economics And Economics Of Gender
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Author : Karmini Sharma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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Essays In Development Economics On Gender And Tribes In India
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Author : Bipasha Maity
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
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Essays In Gender And Development Economics
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Author : Claire Cullen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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Essays In Development Economics
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Author : Manuel Alejandro Estefan Davila
language : en
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Release Date : 2019
Essays In Development Economics written by Manuel Alejandro Estefan Davila and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
This dissertation consists of three essays on three topics in Development Economics: gender equality, state capacity, and human capital. The first essay studies the effect of female labour force participation on gender violence. Using Mexican administrative records for a 10-year period, the study examines the impact of local variation in female employment resulting from changes in US demand for Mexican manufacturing in light industries and finds that increases in the population share of employed women lead to reductions in the male-female earnings gap while increasing the female-instigated divorce rate on the grounds of domestic violence, consistent with an "empowerment"Â effect. However, the study also finds an increase in homicide of married women, consistent with a "backlash"Â effect. The second essay examines the effects of property tax rate changes on taxpayer behaviour in the context of weak enforcement capacity. Specifically, the study uses individual-level property tax records in Mexico City over five years and leverages variation from unexpected yearly tax rate hikes affecting only certain property value bands. The main finding of the study is that tax rate hikes lead to higher tax revenues but also provoke unambiguous reductions in tax compliance, worsening inequality in tax compliance. The third essay proposes a structural approach to study the general equilibrium effects of public investments in schooling on the labour market. Schooling decisions are modelled as individual choices subsidised by the government in an overlapping-generations model. Social returns of human capital depend on the productivity of different schooling levels as production inputs. Estimation of the model using Mexican data on schooling and earnings reveals that public subsidies to college increase average wages and reduce earnings inequality. The reason is that individuals experience significant productivity gains after completing this schooling level, while college graduates are relatively scarce in the Mexican economy.
Essays In Development Economics
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Author : Manuel Alejandro Estefan Dávila
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Education Gender And Media
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Author : Maria Cheung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Education Gender And Media written by Maria Cheung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with internationale organisationer categories.
Three Essays In Development Economics
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Author : David Russell Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University
Release Date : 2011
Three Essays In Development Economics written by David Russell Hansen and has been published by Stanford University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This dissertation is composed of three chapters. All three deal with topics in development economics. The first chapter examines the effects on village institutions of introducing formal financial institution options into the village. The second addresses the effects of government policy on educational investment and crime. The third tests the explanatory power of various explanations of the gender gap in math test scores. The first chapter examines the effects of a transition from a ``traditional'' economy based on an uncertain source of income, with risk fully insured away by one's neighbors in a social network through costly network ties, to a ``modern'' economy in which some agents have access to partial insurance at a lower cost. A theoretical model is used to show that village social networks can break down as some members of the village no longer need the insurance the social network provides, producing a reduction in welfare (if the costs of reducing moral hazard are not too high) for at least some individuals and possibly the village as a whole. This loss of welfare can occur even when networks provide other benefits to those belonging to them and is likely to be heterogeneous, depending on the opportunities and networks available to individuals. This paper tests these predictions using Indonesian data to examine the effect of a change in the banking institutions available to a community on the strength of social networks (measured by community participation) and welfare (measured by household expenditure and by child health). The analysis finds that changing financial institution availability in general does not influence community participation or welfare, but that financial institutions that primarily serve certain groups do relatively reduce the welfare of households not in those groups, which is consistent with the hypotheses generated by the model. Crime is an important feature of economic life in many countries, especially in the developing world. Crime distorts many economic decisions because it acts like an unpredictable tax on earnings. In particular, the threat of crime may influence people's willingness to invest in schooling or physical capital. The second chapter explores the questions "What influence do crime rates and levels of investment have on one another?" and "How do government policies affect the relationship between investment and crime?" by creating a simple structural model of crime and educational investment and attempting to fit this model to Mexican data. A method of simulated moments procedure is used to estimate parameters of the model and the estimated parameters are then used to carry out policy simulations. The simulations show that increasing spending on police or increasing the severity of punishment reduces crime but has little effect on educational investment. Increased educational subsidies increase educational investment but reduce crime only slightly. Thus, one type of policy is insufficient to accomplish the goals of both reducing crime and increasing education. The third chapter is joint work with Prashant Bharadwaj, Giacomo De Giorgi, and Christopher Neilson. Boys tend to have better performances than girls in mathematical testing; in particular, there are significantly more boys than girls among high achievers and the score distribution appears to have a longer right tail for boys. We confirm such results on several low- and middle-income countries. In particular we find that the gender gap is already present by age 10 and substantially increases by age 14 and 15. We propose and try to test a series of explanations for such a gap: (i) parental investment, (ii) ability, (iii) school resources, (iv) individual investment and effort (not tested directly), (v) competitive environment, and (vi) cultural norms. We conclude that none of our proposed explanations can account for a substantial portion of the gap.
Cause And Effect
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Author : Beaumont Maarten Schoeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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Child Health And Gender Related Challenges In The Developing World
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Author : Sofia Karina Trommlerová
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Child Health And Gender Related Challenges In The Developing World written by Sofia Karina Trommlerová and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Essays In Gender And Development Economics
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Author : Maria Hernandez Hernandez de Benito
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Essays In Gender And Development Economics written by Maria Hernandez Hernandez de Benito and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Economics categories.
In this dissertation, I study three topics in gender and development economics. In the first chapter, "The Effect of Violent Crime on Intra-household Resource Allocation", I study the effects of violent crime on household expenditures by exploiting the unexpected and geographically heterogeneous rise in drug-related violence in Mexico in the late 2000s. I estimate a household demand model using a panel survey of Mexican households. The results show the escalation in violence increased the expenditure share of male private goods, at the expense of food and other household necessities.