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Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam

Emran, M. Shahe; Maret-Rakotondrazaka, Fenohasina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of additional schooling reduces the probability of an...

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How venture capitalists spur invention in Spain: Evidence from patent trajectories

Arqué-Castells, Pere - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 5, pp. 897-912

Venture capitalists (VCs) fund the development of promising inventions to turn them into marketable innovations. During … this development stage portfolio firms are likely to garner even more inventions at least until the product is fully … developed. Once the product is fully developed the focus shifts from development to sales so the number of generated inventions …

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Are Skilled Women More Migratory than Skilled Men?

Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Salomone, Sara; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 251-265

This paper empirically studies emigration patterns of skilled males and females. In the most relevant model accounting for interdependencies between women and men’s decisions, we derive the gendered responses to traditional push factors. Females and males do not respond with the same intensity...

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Weight and earnings among childbearing women in Metropolitan Cebu, Philippines (1983–2002)

Colchero, M. Arantxa; Bishai, David - In: Economics & Human Biology 10 (2012) 3, pp. 256-263

We estimated the relationship between weight status and earnings among women participating in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Surveys between 1983 and 2002 conducted in Cebu, Philippines. Women working for pay were selected for the analysis. We used fixed effects estimation to account...

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Division internationale du travail, propriété intellectuelle et développement à l'heure du capitalisme cognitive

Vercellone, Carlo - In: Géographie, économie, société 6 (2004) 4, pp. 359-381

The aim of this paper is to provide a basis for rethinking the approach of development through the changes linked to … in three parts. The first one sketches the structural crisis of the industrialist paradigm inherited from development …. Finally, the third part tries to identify certain features of a post-industrial development strategy based on a socially and …

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Le développement durable : stratégies descendantes et stratégies ascendantes

Claval, Paul - In: Géographie, économie, société 8 (2006) 4, pp. 415-445

The idea of sustainable development, which was officialised by the Brundtland Report in 1987, was born from the will to …

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Whether WTP Is Affected By Some Other Factors? A Case Study On Durgapur

Ferdows, Sk Samim - In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and … 2 (2012) 3, pp. 4-4

Industrialization process is the one of the vital key element of any developing country. It has two impacts. One is the benefit and the other is cost. While it is necessary for occupational transformation of the economy, in terms of employment and growth of the economy, but it has also...

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Clinical guidelines in the European Union: Mapping the regulatory basis, development, quality control, implementation and evaluation across member states

Legido-Quigley, Helena; Panteli, Dimitra; Brusamento, Serena - In: Health Policy 107 (2012) 2, pp. 146-156

regulatory basis of clinical guidelines, their development, quality control, implementation and use as well as evaluation within …

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Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor-Leste during the Second Decade of Independence

Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …

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Clarifier et développer les caractéristiques de l'organisation civile

Meyer-Bisch, Patrice - In: Mondes en développement n°159 (2012) 3, pp. 105-116

democratic development. …

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