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a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
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than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, sending out approx. 9,000 job applications,...
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This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary of the history of randomization in economics. I identify two waves of enthusiasm for the method...
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We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...
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control for human capital (formal education, job-experience etc.), there is usually no information on personality traits …
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The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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