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traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over … the firm performance and characteristics of women in male-dominated sectors (crossovers) with women who are in female … results show that crossovers do not necessarily have more education or greater skills than noncrossovers. Rather, women …
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the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have … women-to-men adult mortality rates is robust to several checks and also confirmed using the instrumental variables approach …
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and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women … focus on men rather than exclusively target women …
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skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …
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This paper studies long-term impacts of violent conflict, to provide insights into the costs of conflict and policies to prevent conflict relapse. The findings link evidence on the contemporaneous effects of conflict with its persistent impact, especially by combining multiple data sources such...
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Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
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Social and economic and rights are incorporated into many national constitutions, and courts in many countries are effectively and legitimately enforcing them. However, the large majority of rights rulings addresses the cost of goods and services and focuses exclusively on access. There is now...
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The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty...
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joblessness among young men and women. The methodology can help us understand why greater discontent may be exhibited by a group …
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Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced account in which not all courts are the same....
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