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When Women Take All : Direct Election and Female Leadership
Cipullo, Davide - 2023
This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into political offices compared to indirect appointment (à la parliamentary). Exploiting the staggered phase-in across Italian municipalities of a reform to the local institutional...
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Is 'Employment During Motherhood' a 'Value Changing Experience'?
Borrell-Porta, Mireia; Contreras, Valentina; … - 2021
Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during motherhood exerts an effect on attitudes towards gender norms, and more specifically, attitudes towards the impact of women's employment on children's wellbeing (which proxy...
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Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders : A Gender Experiment
Grosch, Kerstin - 2020
Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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Corruption Beyond the Glass Ceiling : Do Women Entrepreneurs Perceive Corruption Differently?
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2019
Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005
marginal cost of violence always reduces violence, while increasing the indiscriminate fixed cost may backfire and result in …
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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Kotsadam, Andreas - 2020
We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in …
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Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Children's Dynamic Skill Accumulation : Evidence from a UK Longitudinal Study
Anderberg, Dan - 2020
Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK …
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2019
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …
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