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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015
This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...
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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth : evidence from Bangladesh
Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016
There are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547653
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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education
Schüller, Simone - 2013
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … terrorism shock. -- immigration ; attitudes ; education ; September 11 ; terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697612
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
with other variables such as income, self-employment, or East German origin. …
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Do immigrants bring good health?
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2014
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival … population. Our results suggest that immigration reduces the likelihood that residents report negative health outcomes. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355347
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You can't be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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Does intermarriage pay off? : a panel data analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as … from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826431
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317821
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Wo(men) at work? : the impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours
Triebe, Doreen - 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
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