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Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …
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We assess selection bias in estimated returns to workplace training by exploiting a field experiment with random assignment of workers to a one-week training program. We compare experimental estimates of this program with non-experimental estimates that are estimated by using a sample of agents...
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
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We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA …) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that …
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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This paper examines how culture determines within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany …'s division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture to those in a …
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E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communication technologies … an extension of distance learning, and then of the so-called computer-assisted education, has now become an independent …, ever-expanding and increasingly dynamic industry. ELearning tools are now used at all levels and in all areas of education …
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