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Female babies and risk-aversion
Pogrebna, Ganna; Oswald, Andrew J.; Haig, David - 2017
-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641647
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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources
Antman, Francisca M. - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472500
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Do friendship networks improve female education?
Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asad; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2017
We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636679
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Mining and gender gaps in India
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Menon, Nidhiya; Rodgers, … - 2020
This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316249
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia … inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062106
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Spousal employment and intra-household bargaining power
Antman, Francisca M. - 2014
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364497
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Self-reported health and gender : the role of social norms
Caroli, Eve; Weber-Baghdiguian, Lexane - 2016
, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the … gender environments play an important role in explaining differences in health-reporting behaviours across gender, at least …
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Path-breakers : how does women's political participation respond to electoral success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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Male and female voices in economics
Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Smith, Sarah - 2022
Women's voices are likely to be even more absent from economic debates than headline figures on female under-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are more certain and more confident in their...
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Culture, gender, and financial literacy
Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2022
the degree of gender convergence in financial knowledge in the country of ancestry, the higher the financial knowledge of … women in the US relative to their male counterparts. After ruling out gender differences in cognitive and non … with greater financial knowledge for men but not for women in the US. Once we remove any country-of-ancestry gender …
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