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Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law : Divorce Laws and Family Distress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021
Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change. We analyze state panel data to estimate changes in...
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117390
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113106
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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race
Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada : 1987-1988
Baker, Michael; Fortin, Nicole M. - 2021
The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … heterogeneity across worker groups on average, the link between female wages and gender composition is small and not statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215348
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2018
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936047
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Trust, Values and False Consensus
Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2021
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...
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The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure : A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions
Cotton, Christopher - 2010
analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …
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Men, Women, and Machines : How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality
Juhn, Chinhui - 2012
This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106068
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009 : Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
Blau, Francine D. - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107760