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    Female education and marriage in Pakistan
    – The role of financial shocks and marital customs
    Sarah Khan - World Development , 2024
    This study explores the effect of wealth shocks on education and marriage for young women in Pakistan. Financial shocks are used to estimate the probability of dropping out of education and into marriage. Using the Pakistan Rural Household Panel survey for the years 2000–10, the effects of financial...
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    Frontier rule and conflict
    Adeel Malik, Rinchan Ali Mirza, Faiz Ur Rehman - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict management and disproportionately empowers tribal elites, provides a more fragile basis for maintaining social order in the face of shocks. Combining a historical border separating...
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    Voices from the ground – protracted displacement economies
    Sunit Bagree - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    Many displaced people around the world are in limbo—unable to return home or go anywhere else. Our surveys show that displaced people have lived in their current location for 6.9 years on average, significantly longer than the five-year threshold for what is typically considered a ‘protracted’...
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    Frontier governmentality
    Adeel Malik, Rinchan Ali Mirza, Faiz Ur Rehman - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict management and disproportionately empowers tribal elites, provides a more fragile basis for maintaining social order in the face of shocks.Combining a historical border that...
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    Gender preference at birth
    – A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions
    Mehwish Ghulam Ali, Ashton De Silva, Sarah Sinclair, Ankita Mishra - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    Investigating preference for sons is a continuing focal area of development economics and demographic research. Son preference presents a challenge in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ‘no poverty’, ‘good health and wellbeing’, and ‘gender equality’ by 2030. It is thus...
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    Female education and marriage in Pakistan
    – The role of financial shocks and marital customs
    Sarah Khan - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
    This project aims to explore the effect of wealth shocks on education and marriage for young women in Pakistan. Financial shocks are used to estimate the probability of dropping out of education and into marriage.Using the Pakistan Rural Household Panel survey for the years 2000–10, the effects of...
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    Winning or buying hearts and minds?
    – Cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
    Yashodhan Ghorpade, Patricia Justino - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The main results show evidence of improved satisfaction...
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    Horizontal inequality in the Global South
    – Data, measurement, and trends
    Carla Canelas, Rachel M. Gisselquist - Social Indicators Research , 2019
    Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international development, inequality—both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups)—is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite...
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    Patronage and Public Goods Provisioning in an Unequal Land
    Hadia Majid, Rashid Memon - Social Indicators Research , 2019
    Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South
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    Development programmes, security, and violence reduction
    – Evidence from an insurgency in India
    Heidi Kaila, Saurabh Singhal, Divya Tuteja - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
    Implementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you carry out these programmes successfully? Are there specific conditions under which development policies are effective? What is their impact on violence...
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    Toward gender equity and women’s empowerment
    Jean-Philippe Platteau - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
    There are three main channels of women’s empowerment: legal or policy reforms, outside economic opportunities, and collective action. Legal (or policy) reforms are generally based on statutory laws that enact rules to be followed or prohibit certain practices. External economic opportunities for...
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    Governance and the reversal of women's rights
    – The case of abortion in El Salvador
    Jocelyn Viterna, Jose Santos Guardado Bautista, Silvia Ivette Juarez Barrios, Alba Evelyn Cortez - Oxford University Press , 2018
    From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
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    The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes
    – Evidence from rural Pakistan
    Xavier Giné, Salma Khalid, Ghazala Mansuri - Oxford University Press , 2018
    From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
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    Towards Gender Equity in Development
    Siwan Anderson, Lori Beaman, Jean-Philippe Platteau - Oxford University Press , 2018
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the...
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    The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes
    – Evidence from rural Pakistan
    Xavier Giné, Salma Khalid, Ghazala Mansuri - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
    We use a randomized community development programme in rural Pakistan to assess the impact of citizen engagement on public service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes. The programme had a strong focus on ensuring the participation of women. Women in the study villages had also identified...
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    Exiting the fragility trap
    – Rethinking our approach to the world’s most fragile states
    David Carment, Yiagadeesen Samy - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a ‘fragility trap.’ Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and in...
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