Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Author "Ringdal, Charlotte"

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    • Household Bargaining and Spending on Children: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania 

      Ringdal, Charlotte; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem (Economica vol. 88, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-01)
      This paper studies whether an increase in women's intrahousehold bargaining power causes couples to allocate more resources to their child's education, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this might be. We conduct ...

    • Small Hands Should Play, Not Work: A Theoretical Analysis of Interventions in Child Labor 

      Ringdal, Charlotte (Master thesis, 2011-01-01)
      Twelve hours a day, 7 days a week, there are 150 million children below the age of 15 working to make the clothes we wear, the carpets on our floors and the phones in our pockets. Most of these children do not have a choice: ...

    • The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Ringdal, Charlotte (CMI Report R 2013:1, Research report, 2013-02-01)
      Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses underlying economic and social conditions that should be taken into account ...

    • Understanding Inequality Within Households 

      Almås, Ingvild; Ringdal, Charlotte; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem (Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Chapter, 2022-12-01)
      To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given society, it is necessary to understand intra-household inequality. This chapter gives an overview of within-household distributions in different settings, both ...

    • Women’s use of family planning services: An experiment on the husband’s involvement 

      Ringdal, Charlotte; D'Exelle, Ben (Journal of Development Economics vol. 158, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-01)
      Despite the increased availability of family planning services (FPS) in low-income countries, their use remains low, especially in rural sub-Saharan Africa. To investigate to what extent this is explained by the husband’s ...