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Why do women leave science and engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU …

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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment

Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...

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Effects of changes in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt : regression discontinuity evidence from repatriated ethnic Germans

Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - 2015

To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...

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Migration, economic crisis and adjustment in the UK

Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - 2014

and labour market outcomes are also analysed, including how these relate to changes in the economy and migration policy …

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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis

Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; Ham, Maarten van; Kempen, … - 2014

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...

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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic

Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021

Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...

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The design of disease maps shapes perceptions of threat and public policy preferences

Engel, Claudia; Rodden, Jonathan; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

to the public. These maps have the potential to shape perceptions of threat, preferences about policy, and perhaps even …

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Peers, gender, and long-term depression

Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...

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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures

Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020

Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...

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