Tag: Rajkarnikar

Rajkarnikar’s Research on Gendered Impacts of Migration Published in REHO

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Dr. Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar, Associate Director of the Economics in Context Initiative, at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, has her research published in the Review of Economics of the Household. In her study, titled ‘Male Migration and Women’s Decision Making in Nepal’, Rajkarnikar examines the changes in women’s decision-making roles due to the foreign […]

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New article published in Feminist Economics, “Female Headship and Women’s Work in Nepal”

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Studies on feminization of poverty have tended to homogenize female-headed households. This article presents a mixed methods approach disaggregating the experiences of female-headed households in the post-conflict period in Nepal. One of four households in Nepal is estimated to be female-headed, either as a result of conflict-related male deaths (de jure, or widow heads) or […]

Tags: decision making, gender, household, nepal, pratistha joshi rajkarnikar, Rajkarnikar, ramnarain, smita ramnarain