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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable …
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In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can … be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … and highly robust incentive to emigrate. Yet, whether those migration aspirations are turned into actual preparations is …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for … transmitted through family ties and local party branches. We find that the surnames of FPÖ local election candidates in 2015 in …
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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … border and to airports to account for endogenous migration patterns. Results are robust to estimations using first …
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sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …. Interestingly, this is the result of women focusing on sabotaging each other while men sabotage indiscriminately. Our results have …
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the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …
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Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …
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When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th...
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women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching … evaluations we document may have direct as well as indirect effects on the career progression of women by affecting junior women …
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