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With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...
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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000- 2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the...
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This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the region. Indeed, the results indicate that women are highly discriminated in...
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The distribution of economic education among US college graduates is quite unequal: female and underrepresented minority undergraduates, collectively, major in economics at 0.36 the rate that white, non-Hispanic male students do. This paper makes a four-part contribution to address this...
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minority) in groups with different ethnic compositions. In homogeneous treatments, which consists of one ethnicity, we find no …
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This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the socio-economic consequences of conflict involvement. The first … in mandatory schooling age. Several conflict measures which vary over geographic regions are proposed to capture … different traits of conflict involvement. A special focus is laid on overcoming the potential endogeneity arising from non …
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violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to … an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
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violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to … an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
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