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Natural shocks and marriage markets : fluctuations in mehr and dowry in Muslim marriages

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, … - In: European economic review : EER 128 (2020), pp. 1-28

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A signal to end child marriage : theory and experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Buchmann, Nina; Field, Erica Marie; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a … signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show … that in this environment the market might pool on early marriage even when everyone would benefit from delay. In this …

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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector

Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...

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Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities

Cohen, Alma; Karelitz, Tzur; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women and men in real high-stakes exams. We make use of a natural experiment in which the institute administering Israel's standardized college admission tests amended the language...

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Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations

Brown, Alexander L. - 2013

Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the donor's opportunity cost? Previous models of altruism that focus on the overall impact of a gift cannot rationalize this behavior, despite its prevalence. We develop a model that relaxes this assumption,...

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Diversification through Trade

Caselli, Francesco - 2015

A widely held view is that openness to international trade leads to higher GDP volatility, as trade increases specialization and hence exposure to sector-specific shocks. We revisit the common wisdom and argue that when country-wide shocks are important, openness to international trade can lower...

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Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge frontier causing a sudden release of previously...

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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

Blundell, Richard - 2017

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with uncertainty, the allocation of goods and time over the life cycle also serves the purpose of smoothing...

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Are preferences for work reference dependent or time nonseparable? : new experimental evidence

Cosaert, Sam; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Martin, Ludivine - In: European economic review : EER 148 (2022), pp. 1-23

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The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income : Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States

Vivalt, Eva; Rhodes, Elizabeth; Bartik, Alexander W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month unconditionally for three years, with a control group of 2,000 participants receiving $50/month. We gather...

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