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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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paper examines ride-hailing in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City. We build on statistical modelling informed by the … Mexico’s household travel survey from 2017 to determine the main drivers for ride-hailing adoption, unpack ride-hailing user … paper hypothesizes that ride-hailing usage in a context such as Mexico may be mediated by social issues such as the …
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This paper provides evidence of the existence and determinants of the publication productivity gender gap in Mexico at … Mexican researchers who are members of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico in the period 2002-13. It corrects … existing gender gaps and illustrate the potential effects of a range of policy scenarios. The results show no significant …
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of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to …
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In this paper, we analyse Okun's law - a relation between the change in the unemployment rate and GDP growth - using data from Australia, the euro area, the United Kingdom and the United States. More specifically, we assess the relevance of non-Gaussianity when modelling the relation. This is...
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Okun's law is one of the most widely-known stylized facts in the macroeconomic literature and policy. In this paper, we study several aspects of Okun's law in Macedonia between 2004 and 2014. Aggregate indicators show a link between output and unemployment that is in line with this empirical...
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …
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empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …
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