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differences in proclivity for entry shrink over the launch process; women face greater barriers in access to, than in the terms of …, financing; ventures led by women are smaller and grow more slowly than those led by men but are equally profitable; venture …
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We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015-2017), the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Economic Association (2012-2017), and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2017), we...
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Current research argues that female politicians steer funding away from correction institutions toward other activities related to their policy preferences, such as health care, and that this diversion negatively affects the state spending on prisons. This paper shows that female politicians in...
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women civil society members. While the international community has mandated women's full and equal participation in all … remain significant barriers to the comprehensive implementation of the women, peace and security agenda in policy and … solutions lie within Syrian civil society, and in particular among the organized base of Syrian women's groups. The …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is … evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there … competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies, exploiting close elections between men and women to isolate the …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …
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Foreign trade affects women's wages and jobs, their household work, and their leisure. This paper develops a model … which covers not only all the sectors of the market economy, but also social reproduction and leisure activities, for women …
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nutrition outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role … of women in providing food and nutrition security at the household and individual level needs to be examined, if the …. However, even focussed efforts aimed at resolving the problems faced by women in performing one or other of their roles, may …
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Although women have fifty percent of the managerial positions in large corporations in the United States, the number of … women CEOs and directors is low and progress is stalled. Many scholars maintain that we should promote women executives so … women's "outsider" status increases corporate accountability because they bring distinct moral perspectives to business …
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