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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …
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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 migration : a way out of discrimination?
Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015
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 preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall...
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On the economic origins of restrictions on women's sexuality
Becker, Anke - 2019
This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women's freedom of mobility, and norms about their sexual behavior. The analysis tests the anthropological theory that a...
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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size : 1980s to the present
Carson, Scott Alan - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
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Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's...
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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Male education and domestic violence in Turkey : evidence from a natural experiment
Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2017
We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour against women. We find that husband's education lowers...
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Daddy months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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