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Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households?
Gonzalez, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021
We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the allocation of time between child rearing and the labor market. They can choose the non-cooperative outside option or cooperate by reaching an agreement of specialization in which...
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin evident in the EDD … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …
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Misallocation in Firm Production : A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries
Carrillo, Paul E.; Donaldson, Dave; Pomeranz, Dina; … - 2023
How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms’ underlying...
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Platform Design and Innovation Incentives : Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store
Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021
A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...
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Trade with Nominal Rigidities : Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Ulate, Mauricio; Vasquez, Jose P. - 2022
We present a dynamic quantitative trade and migration model that incorporates downward nominal wage rigidities and show how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find...
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The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Thibault, Emmanuel - 2023
We present a simple dynamic model based on on-the-job human capital accumulation affecting the dynamic of wage rates and labor earnings. We show how these dynamics are determined by the interplay between the supply and demand sides of the labor market. The model can generate and explain the...
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PRC Industrial Policies Postdate Rather than Lead Economic Activity
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
taken place since the early 2000s are driven more by profitability considerations and private entrepreneurship than by …
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Competitively Elected Women as Policy Makers
Hessami, Zohal - 2020
While still far from parity, female representation in politics has continuously increased over the last two decades worldwide. In light of this development, we analyze whether higher female representation has substantive effects on policy choices using the example of child care – a public good...
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Women' Voice on Redistribution : From Gender Norms to Taxation
Bozzano, Monica; Profeta, Paola; Puglisi, Riccardo; … - 2021
Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may influence preferences for redistribution and public policies. We consider both cross-country and individual level evidence on this mechanism. We find that in countries that are...
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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2022
This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...
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