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Testing for discrimination against lesbians of different marital status: A field experiment
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2013
registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination …
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Rent sharing and gender discrimination in collegiate athletics
Lackner, Mario; Zulehner, Christine - 2013
In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...
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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Quack, Sigrid - 2012
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
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Girls just want to have fun? Sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood among Bolivian teenagers
Alfonso, Mariana - 2007
This study attempts to quantify female teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and motherhood in Bolivia using the most recent Demographic and Health Survey. Descriptive results suggest that teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and childbearing are more prevalent among those adolescents who are more...
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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010456987
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Cannonier, Colin; Mocan, Naci - 2012
regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500231
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War of the waves: Radio and resistance during World War II
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Onorator, Massimiliano G.; … - 2018
strong impact on political violence. We provide further evidence to prove that BBC radio played an important role in …
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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018
We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …
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Introducing HiSCoD: A new gateway for the study of historical social conflict
Chambru, Cédric; Maneuvrier-Hervieu, Paul - 2022
Social conflict pervades human society and fulfils a number of essential functions in its development and transformation, including the creation of new norms and institutions. The Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) is an ongoing project designed to provide to scholars and society at...
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Neutralizing the Tentacles of Organized Crime. Assessment of an Anti-Crime Measure in Fighting Mafia Violence
Baraldi, Anna Laura; Pagani, Erasmo; Stimolo, Marco - 2022
increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, anti-corruption measures might also induce criminal … violence. To determine which of these possible effects is prevalent, we undertake an empirical assessment of the impact of city …
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