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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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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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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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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments

Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …

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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa

Friebel, Guido; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...

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