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Can gender quotas in candidate lists empower women? : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Bagues, Manuel F.; Campa, Pamela - 2017
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the short- and medium-term effects of gender quotas in candidate lists using evidence from Spain, where quotas were introduced in 2007 in municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants, and were extended in 2011 to municipalities with more than 3,000...
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Gender quotas or girls' networks? : evidence from an Italian research selection
Checchi, Daniele; Cicognani, Simona; Kulic, Nevena - 2018
This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and the role of connections in promoting women in research activities. Exploiting a newly collected data set on recruitment processes to entry-level research positions in a leading Italian research centre...
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Do employment quotas explain the occupational choices of disadvantaged minorities in India?
Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - 2011
This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...
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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018
More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...
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Biofuel subsidies : an open-economy analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Wall, … - 2009
We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on crude is not available as a policy option, however, a...
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On market forces and human evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time …
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Micro-evidence on product and labor market regime differences between Chile and France
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Lauterbach, Rodolfo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015
simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect competition … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …
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Job market outcomes of IDPs : the case of Georgia
Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto; Obrizan, Maksym - 2018
investigating the issue of labor market outcomes of IDPs. We aim to fill this gap in the literature using 13 years of Integrated …. Our analyses indicate that the labor market outcomes of IDPs are much worse than those of local residents. Specifically …
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The economics of assisted reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
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