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associated with fewer non-marital sexual relationships for women. The data show a robust association between bride price payment … and lower rates of non-marital sexual relationships for women but not for men. …
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of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …
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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …
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expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data … as an instrument for own BMI to address potential endogeneity of BMI in hours worked. We find that White women with … higher BMI work more. This is true for both single and married White women. Results for other groups of women and men produce …
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Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than …
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Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …
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This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline industrial composition. On average, the increase in...
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