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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
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Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China
de la Rupelle, Maëlys - 2010
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
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The Worth of Cities in Germany
Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023
and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …
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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …
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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation
Hübler, Olaf - 2011
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756948