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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

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Economics and Religion

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …

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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Egalitarian Religion and Economics

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?

Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

May, Nils G.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such...

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