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related to the relative position of dependent family members in a clan; and (iii) gender inequality in general. Using data for …
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To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at...
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Chile’s pension system came under close scrutiny in recent years. This paper takes stock of the adequacy of the system and highlights its challenges. Chile’s defined contribution system was quite influential when introduced, and was taken as an example by other countries. However, it is now...
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that rural children struggled to continue learning during school closures. Gender-sensitive policies are needed to narrow …
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and over time. Vaccine demand depends on demographic features such as age and gender, but also on perceptions about the …
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unobserved firm-specific factors likely to affect the magnitude of the gender wage gap. Our findings indicate that male workers … in explaining this gender wage difference. We also find that only around 12% of the mean wage difference in the tourism …
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This paper defends the use of the entropy based Mutual Information index of multigroup segregation for the following five reasons. (1) It satisfies 14 basic axioms discussed in the literature when segregation takes place along a single dimension. (2) It is additively decomposable into between-...
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Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their own and other’s ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Among high school...
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commuting time higher than other private travel time. In addition, if VOCT were to be gender specific, the value might be higher …
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gender gaps in generosity can be explained by experimental setting, where some settings are more conducive than others to … activating gender identity and social norms. In a dictator game we study priming along two dimensions: 1) some subjects enter … their gender on the first page of the questionnaire (Pre) while others enter their gender on the last page (Post) and 2 …
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