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In response to technological change, U.S. corporations have been investing more in intangible capital. This transformation is empirically associated with lower leverage and greater cash holdings, and commonly explained as a precautionary response to reduced debt capacity. We model how firms'...
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Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower … preferred by men - in an area with high HIV prevalence. We observe an increase in the likelihood that women have sex and find … strongest adoption of female condoms among women with lower bargaining power, who were previously having unprotected sex. …
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A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable … portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been … against women during Holi. We analyze how perpetrators' and victims' gender norms drive violence against women. First, we find …
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We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight … (<20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints of more distant firms relax. The negative local impact of mining …
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-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local … goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local …
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whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …
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