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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...

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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market

Ransom, Michael R.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using data from a chain of regional grocery …

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Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency: An Experimental Approach

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which … women display greater patience in their "present bias". We also identify a gender-mood interaction: Negative mood in women …

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The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

Hamermesh, Daniel; Gronau, Reuben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ supply of variety, but little to consumers’ demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in...

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New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Eriksson, Tor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector … from adopting new workplace practices accrue mainly to males so that the gender gap in pay increases at the level of the … gender wage gap among salaried workers is significantly reduced in firms which offer project organisation, while the gap in …

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East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a "Double Disadvantage" vis-à-vis Stayers?

Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel data techniques to take account of unobserved heterogeneity. I find that migrant women after...

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The Determinants of University Participation in Canada (1977−2003)

Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of attending university, by liquidity constraints and capital market imperfections that may modify these calculations and, hence, by the family income of prospective students. Family circumstances...

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Scientific (Wo)manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden

Amilon, Anna; Persson, Inga; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

academically employed in the natural sciences and medicine, whereas no significant gender differences prevail for the social … less than PhDs outside academia. Gender earnings differences are larger in the academic than in the non-academic labour …

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