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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …
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cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
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. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness …, decentralisation made government more responsive by re-directing public investment to areas of greatest need. In Colombia …
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-efficacy differed significantly between boys and girls when youth and gender identities were emphasized but not when stressing personal …
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study explores key features and implications of Beijing’s approach towards this region. Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are used …
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How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We use patent citation data to investigate the relative intensity of knowledge spillovers in clean and dirty technologies in two technological fields: energy production and transportation. We introduce a new...
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We introduce an alternative version of the Fama-French three-factor model of stock returns together with a new estimation methodology. We assume that the factor betas in the model are smooth nonlinear functions of observed security characteristics. We develop an estimation procedure that...
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We propose an easy to use derivative based two-step estimation procedure for semi-parametric index models. In the first step various functionals involving the derivatives of the unknown function are estimated using nonparametric kernel estimators. The functionals used provide moment conditions...
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Efficient semiparametric and parametric estimates are developed for a spatial autoregressive model, containing nonstochastic explanatory variables and innovations suspected to be non-normal. The main stress is on the case of distribution of unknown, nonparametric, form, where series...
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