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Galor, Oded - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...

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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...

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Public-Private Entanglement : Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Unravelling Secularization : An International Study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2021

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was...

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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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Mending the Gap : Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022

sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the …Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the … study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent …

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Missing from the Market : Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2017

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit …

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Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...

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My Choice : Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018

representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh …

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Hilger, Anne - 2018

This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide …

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