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in the Niger Delta (Nigeria) and to national surveys (Afrobarometer). …
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This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of Moldovan small-holders using the four-step Data...
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period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …
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Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …
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the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
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female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …
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) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …
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Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until...
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As evidence of the continuing interest raised by "board gender diversity", major studies (Catalyst, 2008; World …
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offers in computing in order to measure gender and origin discrimination. We found that - out of 28 possible comparisons …
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