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A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender neutrality and suggests that some design features in these interventions can yield more positive economic outcomes for women than for men. These include features in savings and...
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This paper deals with factors determining work-related gender attitudes. With the spread of emancipative values the difference between gender roles is becoming more vague but is still strongly dependent upon country characteristics. While gender attitudes are usually regarded as factors...
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Frédéric Chopin are household names, but few will recognize Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Lutyens or Amy M. Beach, who are among the top-10 female composers of all time. Why are female composers overshadowed by their male counterparts? Using...
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have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect … on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth effect stemming from a composition effect. However, the authors show … period 1970-90. They extend the usual specifications for economic growth regressions by incorporating an interaction term …
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We investigate links between routine-biased technical change, the structure of occupational employment, and cross-country income differences. To implement this, we combine several data sources including national labour force surveys and Penn World Tables. We first document that in our novel...
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We set up an endogenous growth model in which the efficiency of both capital and fossil energy can be improved, whereas … states: one stagnant where energy is fully derived from the alternative energy source, and one with balanced growth where …
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physical capital to study the interaction of international capital flows and growth. Analytically, we study conditions under … long-term growth via the accumulation of human capital. Our mechanism shows how a small initial difference in the level of …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary … to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income …
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pollution intensity. Countries' growth rates are determined endogenously, and abatement efficiency is improved by technical …
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The last forty years have witnessed a remarkable boom in higher education around the world. Importantly, the boom in higher education has been concentrated among women, such that today in most higher-income countries, and many lower-income countries, more women than men attend and complete...
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