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Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India
Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines … the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We … find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745825
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Gender and the labor market: what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126362
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Modernisation and son preference
Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928624
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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of divorce on economic outcomes, and has concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746404
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Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
A large proportion of the gender wage gap is usually left unexplained. In this paper, we investigate whether the unexplained component is due to misspecification. Using a sample of recent UK graduates, we introduce variables on career expectations and character traits, variables that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746710
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Quality competition, market structure and endogenous growth
Tong, Jian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper studies the role of quality competition in endogenous growth and institutional factors which can affect growth through affecting quality competition. The R&D-based growth literature as it stands attributes the incentives for innovations to monopolist market structure, and regards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928601
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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745947
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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation
Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, we analyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928630
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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...
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Does envy destroy social fundamentals? The impact of relative income position on social capital
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...
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