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Natela remembers her femininity as an expression of a long Georgian national tradition that seems to be threatened by a new, market-oriented order. On the contrary, Dela is determined to take advantage of the emerging need for luxury goods and fashion trends among the female consumers in modern...
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Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
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The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...
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We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …
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This study analyzes differences by gender in the ownership of privately held U.S. firms and examines the role of gender … the differences by gender, we find that female-owned firms are 1) significantly smaller, as measured by sales, assets, and …
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) Does gender play a role in determining the relative use of motor and non-motorized modes? 2) If so, how is this role … important to qualify conclusions drawn with respect to the effect of gender given the range of confounding factors that mediate … Hinblick auf folgende Fragen behandelt: 1.) Spielt das Geschlecht der Verkehrsteilnehmer eine entscheidende Rolle beim …
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the gender union wage gap. In other words, the threat of unionization could reduce union wage premiums for both genders as … firm size increases. Given the presence of noticeable gender differences in estimated union effects on the different …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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Access to land and particularly its distribution has reemerged as an important part of both academic and policy discussions in the last decade, leading to the resuscitation of the debate on the relationship between size of holdings and output per land unit. Across the world, studies have...
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This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its …. Union programs deliver more training than nonunion programs, regardless of gender and race/ethnicity. Prior education level …
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