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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
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Whose education matters? : an analysis of inter caste marriages in India
Ray, Tridip; Roy Chaudhuri, Arka; Sahai, Komal - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 176 (2020), pp. 619-633
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Education and Inequality
Machin, Stephen - In: The Oxford handbook of economic inequality. 2012
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Sorting and long-run inequality
Fernández, Raquel - 2000
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Beyond girls' education : pathways to women's post-marital education in Matlab, Bangladesh
Chan, Kiera; Miedema, Stephanie Spaid; Naved, Ruchira … - In: Feminist economics 29 (2023) 1, pp. 38-69
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - In: Human capital and economic growth : the impact of …, (pp. 55-90). 2019
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Sharing the fruits of growth with all Mexicans
Olaberriá, Eduardo; Dugain, Valéry - 2015
introduced major structural reforms to fight poverty, improve the quality of education, create more jobs in the formal sector and …
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Strengthening innovation in the United States
Carey, David; Hill, Christopher T.; Kahin, Brian - 2012
The US innovation system has many strengths, including world class research universities and firms that thrive in innovation-intensive sectors. However, fissures have begun to appear, notably in the areas of human capital development, the patent system and manufacturing activity, while public...
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Dividing the pie in Brazil : income distribution, social policies and the new middle class
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Jalles, João Tovar - 2014
, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa Familia” programme. Among public services, improved access to education … interventions such as expanding early-childhood education, by reducing grade-repetition and through more tailored support for those …
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Improving Education Outcomes in the Slovak Republic
Carey, David - 2007
Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European … countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary …-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education achievement is below the OECD average and strongly influenced by …
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