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Friendship at Work : Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?
Field, Erica - 2015
Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...
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Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups
van Soest, Arthur - 2011
Netherlands is much higher than in, for example, the US …
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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2010
means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under quot;democratic federalismquot; the constitution … creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite each control one policy instrument of importance to the … other. The game has a stable, stationary equilibrium that the elite may prefer to autocratic rule. We apply our analysis to …
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What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading
Ravina, Enrichetta - 2010
We compare the trading performance of independent directors and other officers of the firm. We find that independent directors earn positive and substantial abnormal returns when they purchase their company stock, and that the difference with the same firm's officers is relatively small at most...
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The Democratic Transition
Murtin, Fabrice - 2011
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
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The Value of Democracy : Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
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Democratic Rulemaking
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2015
This paper examines to what extent agency rulemaking is democratic. It reviews theories of administrative rulemaking in light of two normative benchmarks: a “democratic” benchmark based on voter preferences, and a “republican” benchmark based on the preferences of elected...
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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
major impact of web-based educational technologies will be the democratization of education: educational resources will be …
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