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into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …
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We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...
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share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are ….We interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
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women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …
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The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk … share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …
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appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …
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Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...
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We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women, and that …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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