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women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …
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It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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and II, which would seemingly increase uncertainty. In a seminal paper, Schwert (1989) identified the "war puzzle" as one …
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This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … accounting/ budgetary frameworks. As of December 30, 2005, total spending for combat and support operations in Iraq is $251bn … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO …
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This paper argues that before World War II the desire to maintain a trustworthy reputation for honoring war debts was … honoring in full of war debts following World War II. The discussion focuses on differences in economic and political … conditions after World War II, especially the extension of the voting franchise, the increased economic and political power of …
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war. For the war generation of women, the high demand for female labor brought about by mobilization leads to an increase … in labor supply that persists after the war. As a result, younger women who reach adulthood in the 1950s face increased …We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We …
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There is mounting evidence of the influence of personal characteristics of CEOs on corporate outcomes. In this paper we analyze the relation between military service of CEOs and managerial decisions, financial policies, and corporate outcomes. Exploiting exogenous variation in the propensity to...
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Although it is well known that traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, we still have little understanding of what this means for development policy. To improve our understanding of this issue, we examine how the effects of school construction on girls' education...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …
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result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …
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