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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor’s degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - CESifo - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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The Elasticity of Derived Demand, FactorSubstitution and Product Demand: Corrections to Hicks’ Formula and Marshall’s Four Rules

Chirinko, Robert S.; Mallick, Debdulal - CESifo - 2006

Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...

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Behavioral Indifference Curves

Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014

According to the endowment effect there is some discomfort associated with giving up a good, that is to say, we are willing to give up something only if the price is greater than the price we are willing to pay for it. This implies that the indifference curves should designate a reference point...

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The Gender Imbalance in Participation in Canadian Universities (1977-2005)

Christofides, Louis; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - CESifo - 2009

More females than males have been attending Canadian universities over the past decade and this gender imbalance in university participation has been increasing. We use the Linear Probability and Logit models to investigate the determinants of attending university and explore the reasons for the...

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How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - CESifo - 2011

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions - from the economic effects of party control of government...

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Teaching and Learning Alternatives to a Comparative Advantage Motivation for Trade

Self, James K.; Becker, William E. - CESifo - 2015

Introductory economics courses emphasize opportunity cost, comparative advantage and specialization to show the …

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A Behaviour-based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India

Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders; Somanathan, Rohini - CESifo - 2013

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices. Widespread criticism of these indices led to the adoption of a new official methodology in 2011 based on unit values from consumption survey data. We propose an alternative...

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International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food

Almås, Ingvild - CESifo - 2010

Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its...

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