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Women's Rights and the Gender Migration Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290132
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International Sanctions and Emigration
Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2024
In this first empirical analysis of how sanctions affect international migration, we apply two estimation strategies, a …, reflecting migration flows from 157 origin countries to 32 (largely OECD) destination countries between 1961 and 2018. The data … UN sanctions on international migration is smaller and less persistent. Moreover, the effects are driven by target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469523
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Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2008
that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317734
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Student flows and migration : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261293
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Nineteenth century black and white US statures: the primary sources of vitamin D and their relationship with height
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271952
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Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658043
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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398552
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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households
Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2018
We revisit the prominent finding that women’s incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of their partner. So far, this bunching has been explained by couple formation or couples’ labor market decisions. We propose an additional mechanism: income misreporting in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932048
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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households
Roth, Anja - 2019
We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892274