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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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Using a gravity approach, we explore determinants and dynamics of refugee migration using a gendered cross-national dyadic dataset on refugee movements for the years 2000-2015. Along three dimensions (push, pull and cost factors), we analyze whether there are heterogeneous effects of ight...
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. This gender difference decreases when conflict intensity is high. We also find significant differences concerning the …
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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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