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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w16021 |
来源ID | Working Paper 16021 |
Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India | |
Robert T. Jensen | |
发表日期 | 2010-05-20 |
出版年 | 2010 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force participation and investment in girls, two significant problems are the possibility of omitted variables bias and reverse causality, and difficulty in identifying which of several mechanisms (returns, bargaining power, income, etc.) link the two. To overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian villages get jobs in the business process outsourcing industry. Girls in treatment villages were more likely to be in school and had greater measured BMI. We argue that the design of the experiment (providing opportunities almost exclusively for young, unmarried women rather than current mothers) allows us to rule out that mechanisms other than increases in the returns explain our results. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16021 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573695 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert T. Jensen. Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India. 2010. |
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