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find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …
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use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …
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virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …
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We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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Billions of dollars have been spent on participatory development programs in the developing world. These programs give … field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …
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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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Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
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differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …
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