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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

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Grow rich while you sleep : selection in experiments with voluntary participation

Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in Belgium and the Netherlands. The data allow us to distinguish...

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Audit rates and compliance : a field experiment in long-term care

Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der; Vriend, Sandra - 2014

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...

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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Kete, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016

This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...

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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls' trajectories : evidence from a field experiment in India

Andrew, Alison; Krutikova, Sonya; Smarrelli, Gabriela; … - 2022

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an … approach that additionally engages with the enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. We ﬁnd that both arms of the …

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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education

Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2022

country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …

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The (un)importance of school assignment

Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023

We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...

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Spillovers in fields of study: siblings, cousins, and neighbors

Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023 - This version: September 2023

We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of …

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