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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009
The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the … instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - CESifo - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747224
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Can there be a Wave-Like Association between Economic Growth and Inequality? Theory and Lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2012
High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This...
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Do Natural Resources Depress Income Per Capita?
Arezki, Rabah; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2010
Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...
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The Pungent Smell of "Red Herrings": Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2010
Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) provide cross-country evidence that the resource curse is a “red herring” once one corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource exports are no longer significant while the value of...
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The Volatility Curse: Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2009
The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...
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Steady-State Growth and the Elasticity of Substitution
Irmen, Andreas - CESifo - 2010
In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the assessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - CESifo - 2008
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
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