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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first …
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almas, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian over the period 1967-2000. We find that the...
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Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia
Guriev, Sergei; Vakulenko, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia for 1995-2010. We find that barriers that hindered internal migration in 1990s have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In 1990s many poor Russian regions were in poverty traps:...
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Regional Growth in Japan
Shioji, Etsuro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The paper investigates the possibility that this discrepancy...
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Determinants of Interregional Mobility in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
Andrienko, Yuri; Guriev, Sergei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
The Paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low, it turns out that its intensity does depend on...
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Gender Gaps in Completed Fertility
Field, Erica; Molitor, Vera; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we use survey data from several recent waves of the...
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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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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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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...
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Gender Peer Effects in School, a Birth Cohort Approach
Ciccone, Antonio; Garcia-Fontes, Walter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across … birth cohorts. Our approach differs from the existing literature, which exploits variation in gender composition at a given … generally yields spurious gender peer effects when there is grade retention. The birth cohort approach applied to primary …
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