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The effects of mandatory disclosure of supermarket prices

Ater, Itai; Rigbi, Oren - 2018

We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market, multiple complementary control groups and relying on...

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How broadband Internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Vigtel, … - 2019 - This version: December 19, 2019

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters,...

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Information spillover and factor adjustment

Guiso, Luigi - 1999

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Price discovery on foreign exchange markets with differentially informed traders

Jong, Frank de (contributor) - 1999

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Education, gender, and family formation

Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024

We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by centralized admissions processes to both secondary and tertiary education in Finland. Admission to further education at either margin does not increase the likelihood that men...

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Gender unemployment catching-up : empirical evidence from Italian regions

Belloc, Marianna; Tilli, Riccardo - 2010

We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is … labour markets. -- gender unemployment gap ; regional disparities ; unit-root tests with structural break …

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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics : evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment

Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016

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Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes

Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

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Regional unemployment, gender, and time allocation of the unemployed

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 1, pp. 105-127

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