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Dams
Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...
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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions
Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082535
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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082546
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the …
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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
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