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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India: The role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …-in-law's time allocation across different activities, where their education levels are used as indicators of bargaining power? The …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household …
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The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece
Sambanis, Nicholas; Nikolova, Elena; Schultz, Anna - 2022
The European sovereign debt crisis resulted in policies of fiscal austerity and economic downturn in Greece, marked by a prolonged period of recession and high unemployment. This article explores the social impact of the economic crisis, focusing on its effects on altruism using new...
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Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
Neyt, Brecht; Baert, Stijn; Vynckier, Jana - 2019
Research exploiting data on classic (offline) couple formation has confirmed predictions from evolutionary psychology in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine whether these human partner preferences survive in a...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
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Women in Engineering: The Role of Role Models
Agurto, M.; Bazan, M.; Hari, S.; Sarangi, S. - 2021
Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In … addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in …
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The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
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Sexual Orientation and Earnings. A Meta-Analysis 2012-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This meta-analysis utilizes 24 papers published between 2012-2020 that focus on earnings differences by sexual orientation. The papers cover the period between 1991 and 2018, and countries in Europe, North America and Australia. The meta-analysis indicates that gay men earned less than...
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Improving Children Health and Cognition: Evidence from School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called “mid-day meal” on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...
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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020
We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a model of intergenerational … persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections. Parents may … with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the father is college educated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in …
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