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different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data …
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This paper estimates and interprets returns to education for three sub-sectors of labour market by gender in Pakistan …
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This paper presents an alternative explanation of the gender pay gap resting on a simple Hotelling-style dyopsony model …
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This paper addresses the sex differences in cohabiters’ marriage preferences, which have received very little attention in the family literature. According to Norwegian survey data from 1996, cohabiting men are more hesitant to marry than cohabiting women. For example, childless male...
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and context of becoming a parent and gender differences in timing. We use common childhood measures for the two cohorts …, pool the two data sets and fit common models. We then ask whether explicit terms for gender or for cohort are required …. These can be an unexplained gender or cohort differential or specific differential pathways through measured childhood …
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traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. We conceptualize the various mechanisms … findings from our own survey suggest that modern supply chains may be associated with reduced gender inequalities in rural …
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This paper analyzes the way in which men and women are expected to behave differently in an experimental situation. To do so, we concentrate on a single topic: altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a...
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There exists evidence in the social science literature that women may be more relationship- oriented, may have higher standards of ethical behavior and may be more concerned with the common good than men are. This would imply that women are more willing to sacri.ce private pro.t for the public...
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This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data from married men and women in rural Malawi to examine how they comprehend their risk to HIV/AIDS and what preventive strategies they consider within marriage. Program efforts to promote behavior change have consistently focused on promoting...
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In this paper, we study the transition to motherhood in the first co-residential union in the dual-earner context of state socialism, namely in Hungary and Poland between the late 1960s and the end of the 1980s. Our analyses are based on data extracted from the Polish and the Hungarian Fertility...
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