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In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …
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This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. The paper establishes the market …-if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock-low fertility beyond the early forties-is central to this gender …
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This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are significantly more likely to be divorced, that...
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gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change …
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We establish the presence of a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries using detailed …, the gender gap appears to increase with age. Indeed, the gap nearly doubles when comparing 4th grade and 8th grade test … ability, and classroom environment (including teacher gender) explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these …
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/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …
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Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the …
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Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
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Progress in artificial intelligence and related forms of automation technologies threatens to reverse the gains that developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century, aggravating poverty and inequality. The new...
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, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
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