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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with …
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-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …, among women, the deterioration in mental health is similar for both BAME and British White individuals. Second, the gender … BAME groups. The BAME group of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani appears to be driving the difference in the gender gap in …
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What caused the recovery from the British Great Depression? A leading explanation - the "expectations channel" - suggests that a shift in expected inflation lowered real interest rates and stimulated consumption and investment. However, few studies have measured, or tested the economic...
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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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Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … association between maternal and paternal overweight and that of their offspring by gender, alongside the combined parental effect …. We aim at identifying the existence and the magnitude of a gender-assortative transmission of overweight after …
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lottery-induced experience asking a question, or with years of service. However, the gender gap almost fully closes after a … gender gaps in adversarial settings. …
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We derive monthly and quarterly series of UK GDP for the inter-war period from a set of monthly indicators that were constructed by The Economist at the time. The monthly information is complemented with data for quarterly industrial production, allowing us to employ mixed-frequency methods to...
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Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...
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We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...
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