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How individual characteristics shape the structure of social networks

Schunk, Daniel; Girard, Yann; Hett, Florian - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2014

We study how students’ social networks emerge by documenting systematic patterns in the process of friendship formation of incoming students; these students all start out in a new environment and thus jointly create a new social network. As a specific novelty, we consider cooperativeness, time...

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Introduction

Eswaran, Mukesh - Princeton University Press

been empowered through access to education, credit, healthcare, and birth control; changes in ownership laws; the …

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Why Gender Matters in Economics

Eswaran, Mukesh - Princeton University Press

been empowered through access to education, credit, healthcare, and birth control; changes in ownership laws; the …

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Models for University Engagement with Private and Public Sector Employers

Kaneene, John B.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Mugisha, Anthony; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014

This study compares models for university engagement with private and public sector employers in Africa. It compares engagement models in countries with more developed food systems (South Africa) and a sample of selected African countries with less developed food systems - Kenya, Uganda,...

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Diet-Health Information and Nutrition: The Intake of Dietary Fats and Cholesterol

Variyam, Jayachandran N.; Blaylock, James R.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1997

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Modeling Nutrient Intake: The Role of Dietary Information

Variyam, Jayachandran N.; Blaylock, James R.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1995

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Health and Education: Another Look with the Proper Data

Cohen, Daniel; Leker, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

particular, they find no impact of life expectancy increases on education. We argue that their pessimistic results with respect … the impact of life expectancy improvements on the average education of the whole population aged above 15, which evolves … much slower. We have reproduced their estimations with a cohort-based measure of education and find a positive and …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …

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World Human Development: 1870-2007

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …

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