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A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …
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Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic, and political background. Yet, the prevalence of domestic violence is very high in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, I examine the effect of women's employment on domestic...
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study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …
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Gender gaps in political ideology transformed from traditional gaps (women showing more right-leaning than men) to … this transformation. This paper analyses how labour market status and the pandemic can affect gender differences in left … younger generations. The results point to gender as a relevant political cleavage in Spain in the near future. …
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study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581775
congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender …
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