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This paper studies the role of population sex ratio, i.e. ratio of men to women, in the global wave of sodomy law reform in the post-WWII era. Using a global survey, this paper first finds that men are more homophobic than women and such pattern has persisted across countries and time. With a...
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This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
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This paper estimates and interprets returns to education for three sub-sectors of labour market by gender in Pakistan …
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Female labor force participation is mainly driven by the value of women’s market wages versus the value of their non-market time. Labor force participation by women varies considerably across countries. To understand this international variation, one must further consider differences across...
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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 … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
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opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …
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This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816482
This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several … sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport …
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