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Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for major structural reforms. As in most developing economies, the "Orange Revolution" government’s success will depend on its ability to keep income distribution within an...
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gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …
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gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …
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operations as pooling, matching, regression, hierarchical and multilevel modeling, calculating summary measures, finding the …
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Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
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This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …
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), Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), Gender Inequality Index (GII), Gender Development Index (GDI). In the paper GDI and GII … indices for Poland. Additionally, this article wants to evaluate reduction of gender inequality in Poland. …
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2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …. Based on new data for 2013, however, we find that from 2007 to 2013 the gender wage gap narrowed. For 2013 we estimate the … gender wage gap at between 19 percent and 25 percent. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions reveal that the contributions of the …
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's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality … of women's empowerment and to understanding of the mechanisms to achieve gender equality in education. …
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