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female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female …
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The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
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suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … welfare and gender gaps. For a sample of 70 countries observed at five year intervals from 1965 to 1980, tariff, quota, and … to increased gender equality. …
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Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security,...
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female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566661
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
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