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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014

necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms …

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms …

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Equilibrium search and the impact of equal opportunities for women

Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2013

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...

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Self-enforcing family rules, marriage and the (non)neutrality of public intervention

Cigno, Alessandro; Komura, Mizuki; Luporini, Annalisa - 2016

We demonstrate that the notion of a "family constitution" (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring adults to provide attention for elderly parents carries over from a world where sexually indifferentiated individuals reproduce by cell separation, to one where individuals...

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Land inequality, eduction, and marriage : empirical evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016

inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

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