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when women have babies in their forties. These data regularities align with a significant increase in the risk of having a … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially...
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survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more …
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findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …
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This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...
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effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in … women in agriculture but not men. It has no effect on the fertility of young women living in non-agricultural households, or …. These findings validate the marginal cost hypothesis whereby drought, by reducing the value of women's agricultural labor …
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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …
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Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …
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In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in … the international ones: approval of IPVAW is higher among women, people in rural areas, people in a disadvantaged socio … since the enactment of women’s suffrage. The most novel contribution of our work is the study of the variables at country …
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