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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality Since 1900
Cullen, Mark R. - 2015
Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....
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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition
Canes, Brandice J. - 2011
It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125959
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. Contrary to the existing literature, I find that family … of other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally is taken into account …
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Career and Family : College Women Look to the Past
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family …. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to … observe the choices each made and how the constraints facing college women loosened over time. No cohort of college graduate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243438
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Teaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement Across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2016
Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points …) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the … more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This occupational shift could affect the length of women's careers because teaching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982020
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064451
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The Effect of Privacy Regulation on the Data Industry : Empirical Evidence from Gdpr
Aridor, Guy; Che, Yeon-Koo; Salz, Tobias - 2022
Regulation (GDPR). The opt-in requirement of GDPR resulted in 12.5% drop in the intermediary-observed consumers, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014100575
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The Euro and Structural Reforms
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758159
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The Economic Future of Europe
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2021
After three years of near stagnation, the mood in Europe is definitely gloomy. Many doubt that the European model has a future. In this paper, I argue that things are not so bad, and there is room for optimism. Over the last thirty years, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than...
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Competitive Liberalization and a Us-Sacu FTA
Whalley, John; Leith, J. Clark - 2022
This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...
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