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regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment …
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Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …
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larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …
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that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … improved the relative status of women relative to both men before and after the transition to social feminism. Twentieth … century women's BMIs were higher than 19th century women relative to men with the rise of social feminism. The primary source …
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choices using the example of child care – a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …
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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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