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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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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vaillant, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
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