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Gender Norms in Transition? Parents' Housework and Childcare Time in the COVID‐19 Era
ABSTRACT Objective We examined whether gender disparities in time spent in childcare and housework in the years after the start of the pandemic increased, decreased, or returned to pre‐pandemic levels. Background At the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, parents experienced increased time in unpaid labor. Many scholars argued that this increase signaled a
Jennifer March Augustine, Kate Prickett
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Decomposing the gap in childhood undernutrition between poor and non–poor in urban India, 2005–06 [PDF]
Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been ...
Kumar, A., Singh, Aditya
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ABSTRACT Access to finance is critical for rural non‐farm self‐employment businesses in Southeast Asia, but financial constraints and gender discrimination impede their growth. Existing literature largely overlooks vulnerable groups like rural household businesses.
Chung Thanh Phan +3 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines the role of inherited circumstances in labor market inequality of opportunity in Chile. We estimate their contribution as the change in total inequality after removing their influence. Since this contribution may differ depending on whether it is measured before or after removing the influence of other factors, we use the ...
Carlos Gradín, Gabriela Zapata‐Román
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Using LCMS data (2010, 2022) and Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition, this study shows that child height‐for‐age in Zambia improved (Δ ≈ −0.92 SD) due to both enhanced household conditions and stronger nutritional returns, with distinct rural and urban pathways, highlighting the need for improved sanitation, diet quality protection, and stronger urban ...
Richard Bwalya, Thomson Kalinda
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Religious minorities and provision of public goods: Evidence from rural West Bengal [PDF]
Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India.
Das, Pranab Kumar +2 more
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The Capability to Reduce Inequality via STEM Occupations: The Case of Ecuador
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between labor income inequality, higher education, and STEM occupations in Ecuador from 2009 to 2013 and from 2014 to 2019, considering techniques, degrees, and postgraduate education. It analyzes the “composition effect” and the “structural effect” using the recentered influence function (RIF).
Susana Herrero Olarte +3 more
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Recent studies have reported that SNAP participants have poorer diet quality than non-participants. This study aimed to examine how differences in socio-demographic, household, and health-related measures explain disparities in diet quality between SNAP ...
Chelsea R. Singleton +4 more
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Discrimination in science: Salaries of foreign and U.S. born land‐grant university scientists
Abstract The dominance of the US innovation and academic system relies heavily on foreign‐born labor for its success. Recent literature has shown evidence of wage gaps in academia based on gender and race; however, little is known about whether a wage gap might exist for foreign‐born faculty.
Jeremy Foltz, Vikas P. D. Gawai
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Migrants, Refugees and Employer Discrimination
ABSTRACT We investigate the labour market integration of humanitarian and non‐humanitarian migrants in Australia using longitudinal data from the Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) surveys.
Liwen Guo, Massimiliano Tani
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