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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700920
gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
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empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work …
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In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2018-19. OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation are presented. Various econometric techniques (e.g., conventional IV and heteroskedasticity-based IV...
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empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976901
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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