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Economic opportunities and gender equity : the migration and education decisions of young women from rural China

Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan - 2019

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young women has recently disappeared. We propose that the...

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Implementierung von Gleichstellungszielen in wirkungsorientierten Steuerungsprozessen : aktuelle Beispiele und Umsetzungserfahrungen

Wroblewski, Angela (ed.) - 2019

Die Bundesverfassung sieht als Grundsätze der Haushaltsführung des Bundes die Wirkungsorientierung sowie Gender …The Federal Constitution provides for outcome orientation and gender budgeting as principles of federal budget … women and men in their budget management. This paper contains two articles that deal with the implementation of gender …

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Measuring farm labor : survey experimental evidence from Ghana

Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios-Lopez, Amparo; … - 2019

This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted at the end of the season are compared with data collected weekly throughout the season. The study finds that the recall method...

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The early life influences of teachers' genders on later life charitable giving : evidence from the natural disasters in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2019

attitude outcomes. Overall, our results suggest potential prosocial implications may arise from teacher-student gender matching. …

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Selecting talent : gender differences in participation and success in competitive selection processes

Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2019

We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious … in-person interview. The data show a very large gender gap in success rates: women's success rate is 36% lower than men …% lower than for comparable male candidates. We show that this gap is explained by reviewers engaging in gender balancing …

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Numeracy and unemployment duration

Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019

Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...

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