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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 … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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This paper analyses whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after their rise to power in 1933. Using data on public employment in the armed forces, public administrations and related professions from the German occupational censuses in 1925, 1933 and...
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Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly … 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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This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationships between childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adult well-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the National Child Development Study, we use a rich array of childhood background...
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This paper analyses the increase in mothers¿ employment in Britain over the period 1974¿2000. The approach consists of isolating those birth cohorts whose mothers experienced significant increases in employment and relating those to changes in policies (maternity rights, taxation and...
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Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...
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Since Adam Smith’s time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...
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This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and unusually rich dataset on bribe payments at ports...
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Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745204