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In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing …, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an … the stock price reaction to the introduction of gender quotas. A positive effect of the quota law on stock market returns …
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-cycle income profiles slope more strongly at the beginning and at the end of work life, such that age becomes a more prominent …
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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …
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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …
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education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. … population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is associated with a significant increase in income inequality. As …
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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …
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income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption …
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