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What to Make of Unprofitable Corporate Social Responsibility

Seidler, Reagan - 2020

Many companies lose money by acting responsibly. So why do they do it?Because in a favourable business climate, companies act generously.Decades of empirical tests have yet to confirm that corporate social responsibility is and has been a financially responsible business strategy. This paper...

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The lasting effects of maternal net nutrition during US economic development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2016

women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with economic development. This study shows that after controlling for … characteristics, African-American women had greater BMIs than lighter complexioned black and white women. Women from the Southwest … were taller and had lower BMIs than women born elsewhere within the US. However, women's BMIs did not vary by occupations …

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A silent revolution? : gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860 - 1930

Baskerville, Peter A. - 2008

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¿Casa propia? : la autonomía económica de las mujeres en Ecuador

Alvarado, Gina; Anglade, Boaz; Catanzarite, Zachary B.; … - 2021

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Gender inequality in asset ownership and women's food security in sub-Saharan Africa

Ndjobo, Patrick Marie Nga - In: African development review 35 (2023) 1, pp. 24-37

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Does relative risk aversion vary with wealth? : evidence from households׳ portfolio choice data

Liu, Xuan; Yang, Fang; Cai, Zongwu - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 69 (2016), pp. 229-248

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Revitalizing women's labor force participation in North Africa : an exploration of novel empowerment pathways

Ibourk, Aomar; Elouaourti, Zakaria - In: International economic journal 37 (2023) 3, pp. 462-484

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Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000

Boustan, Leah Platt; Bunten, Devin; Hearey, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This handbook chapter seeks to document the economic forces that led the US to become an urban nation over its two hundred year history. We show that the urban wage premium in the US was remarkably stable over the past two centuries, ranging between 15 and 40 percent, while the rent premium was...

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The National Rise in Residential Segregation

Logan, Trevon D.; Parman, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper introduces a new measure of residential segregation based on individual-level data. We exploit complete census manuscript files to derive a measure of segregation based upon the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. Our measure allows us to analyze segregation consistently and...

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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth: US cities, 1880-1930

Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - 2015

We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had...

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