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We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the...
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To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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As the world becomes more financially integrated and complex, average individuals and their families are increasingly …
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Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
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We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …
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likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health …
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's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures … and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap. Since it is likely that labor market … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …
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characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …
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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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information technology and the emergence of the “knowledge economy”, or with the increase in educational attainment and the growth …
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