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From politics to the family : how sex-role attitudes keep on diverging in reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

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Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest-low fertility setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on … the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to …

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Tear down this wall : on the persistence of borders in trade

Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The … evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …

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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration

Kohler, Wilhelm (contributor) - 2007

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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European monetary union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are …

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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians

Baltrunaite, Audinga (contributor) - 2012

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during the period...

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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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Let the voters choose women

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2016

Female under-representation in politics can be the result of parties' selection of candidates and/or of voters' electoral preferences. To assess the impact of these two channels, we exploit the introduction of Italian Law 215/2013, which prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and...

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Female empowerment and male backlash

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2018

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961, the western territories of today's Cameroon were...

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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation

Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001

In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...

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