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Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
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Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
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The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …
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exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …
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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. …
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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 …
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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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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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