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degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis …
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lockdown. However, men's browsing increased by significantly more, causing gender gaps overall and in key browsing categories …'s employment. Consistent with increased childcare obligations driving the observed gender gaps, we find that gaps were greatest …
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than sons. Although China's hukou mobility restrictions are not gender-specific in intent, they have larger adverse effects … schooling - to document that migrants become discontinuously more likely to leave middle-school-aged daughters (but not sons …) behind in poor rural areas without either parent present exactly when schooling becomes expensive and restricted. The effect …
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differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …
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We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for...
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gender quota legislation across developing countries, we identify sharp sustained reductions of 8-12 percent in maternal … mortality. Investigating mechanisms, we find that gender quotas lead to increases in percentage points of 5-8 in skilled birth … attendance and 4-8 in prenatal care utilization, alongside a decline in fertility of 6-7 percent and an increase in the schooling …
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Vaccinations are a cost-effective tool to prevent child mortality and morbidity; however, their access and take-up remain low in developing countries. We analyze the effects on child vaccinations of a large-scale community-based health worker program that aimed to reach remote areas distant from...
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