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This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
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This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...
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the number of campuses and college graduates in Russia. Our empirical strategy relies on the marginal treatment effect …
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Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
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This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …
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rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …
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With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis …
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