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In 2013, Stiftung Warentest tested hazelnut chocolate for their leading magazine, called Test. Stiftung Warentest is one of the most important consumer organizations in Germany. Ritter Sport is a high-quality producer of chocolate in Germany. Their hazelnut chocolate did not pass the test. It...
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and response. Internet access has facilitated the rapid dissemination of vital information, provided telemedicine services …
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's use of mass communication media to obtain information about the ECB. We employ a unique representative public opinion … of knowing about monetary policy, but to take the gender-specific differences into account in doing so. …
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the true state (of the world) of given cases. The investigation of assessment criteria improves the initial information … updated, allowing for a sorting of particular cases into ever smaller subclasses. However, receiving such information causes …
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This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry aggregated panel … the gender wage gap regardless of a country's development stage. While having more children widens the gender wage gap, as … participation by women seems to narrow the gender wage gap, probably due to the number of female labor market entrants taking up …
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This paper examines how women's participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women's rights to an equal share in ancestral property, including land. Using a unique rural household survey from...
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This study presents a gender-specific assessment of medium-term disaster recovery following a series of earthquakes in … because of the gradual increase of human activities after reconstruction work occurred. The study also shows how a gender …
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Gender gaps in labor market outcomes persist in South Asia. An open question is whether supply or demand side … experiment. Employers' gender restrictions are a larger constraint on women's job opportunities than supply-side decisions. At …
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We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to receive advice to buy only individual or only local...
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Demographics in Malaysia and Viet Nam are evolving rapidly, potentially disrupting traditional family support to older people. We estimate a set of Poisson random effects models with panel data from the Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey and the Viet Nam Aging Survey to analyze how living...
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