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Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math

Breda, Thomas; Jouini, Elyès; Napp, Clotilde - 2019

While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers. Using data from five successive waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that this underrepresentation...

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Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2018

This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection...

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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

El Badaoui, Eliane; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...

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Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Chaikumbung, Mayula; Doucouliagos, Chris; Scarborough, Helen - 2018

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …

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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?

Giuliano, Paola - 2006

conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …

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The roots of low European employment: family culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2005

. This paper argues that family labor supply interactions and cross-country heterogeneity in family culture are key for … shaped by national features. We also document that cross-country differences in family culture cause cross …

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Culture and human capital investments: evidence of an unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2008

This paper uses a policy quasi-experiment created by the introduction of an old-age unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity and gender of the recipient. Taking advantage of a...

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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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The racial saving gap enigma: unraveling the role of institutions

Belton, Willie; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2008

evidence of the long-lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and culture. In this paper, we provide an … be attributed solely to racial discrimination but can be explained by the response of culture to institutional … transmitted through culture can help to explain this persistent saving disparity. …

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Family ties and political participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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