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correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
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Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...
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correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...
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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …
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inequality in wages occurred alongside a narrowing of inequality in wages within each gender group. The share of college …-educated women relative to men in the work force grew substantially over the two decades, and they sorted disproportionately into …-intensive occupation was, in both periods, greater for women; it declined for men while rising for women during the 2000s. Our findings …
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We leverage introduction of the first antibiotic therapies in 1937 to examine impacts of pneumonia in infancy on adult education, employment, disability, income and income mobility, and identify large impacts on each. We then examine how racial segregation in the pre-Civil Rights Era moderated...
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liberalization focusing on employment, unemployment, wages, productivity, and work conditions that are related to trends in …
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public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …. The results are topical given that a bill proposing quotas for women in state assemblies is currently pending in the …
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impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being …
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