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How "Original Sin" Was Overcome : The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions
Bordo, Michael D.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Redish, Angela - 2021
several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …
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The Effects of Race and Sex Discrimination Laws
Neumark, David; Stock, Wendy A. - 2021
The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has been of interest at least since the Civil Rights and Equal Pay Acts passed in the 1960s. We present new evidence on the effects of these laws based on variation induced first by...
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
represent recent immigrants under the point system from the three largest countries of origin (China, India, and Pakistan) and …), but were no different compared to foreign applicants from Britain. 2) Employers valued experience acquired in Canada much … more than if acquired in a foreign country. Changing foreign resumes to include only experience from Canada raised callback …
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India : Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Frisancho, Verónica - 2012
graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in …
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities : Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee - 2010
assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
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On Her Own Account : How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Field, Erica - 2019
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...
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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
Dhar, Diva - 2018
. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender …
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - 2012
Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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