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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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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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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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Gender, Poverty and the Intra-household Distribution of Resources

Findlay, Ronald; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

relationship between gender and poverty. These countries were chosen as they have, under the equal-sharing assumption, very … different gender distributions of poverty. …

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …

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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female …

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F; Zimmermann, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...

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Why Don't Women Patent?

Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; Hunt, Jennifer; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...

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