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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10135 Reilee L. Berger
John V. Winters
Does Private Schooling Increase Adult Earnings? Cohort-Level Evidence for U.S. States
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census ...
(published in: Review of Regional Studies, 2016, 46 (3), 281-294)
I20, J24, R50
10134 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality
This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132)
I10, I12, J15, J16, Z13
10133 Alex Armand
Orazio Attanasio
Pedro Carneiro
Valerie Lechene
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1875 - 1897)
D12, D13, E21, O12
10132 Seeun Jung
Chung Choe
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis
In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 112-121)
J16, J24, J31, C91, D81
10131 Abdou Musonera
Almas Heshmati
Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017)
D63, D91, I15, I25, J12
10130 Elizabeth Brainerd
The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 229–242.)
J12, J16, N34, P23
10129 Grace Lordan
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 110 - 130)
J16, J4
10128 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132, 218 - 257)
D72, D70, J16, H50, M50
10127 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Xiuna Yang
Gang Shuge
Dai Jianzhong
Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises
The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41 (3), 456 - 469)
D64, H84, L26
10126 Adrian Adermon
Mikael Lindahl
Daniel Waldenström
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations
This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F482-F513)
D31, J62
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