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Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4 …-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate …
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This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …
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attainment, whereas the presence of sex-based grammatical gender, and its association with gender bias, has a significant adverse …
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the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a … difference-in-difference-in-differences model which exploits the seasonality in red meat consumption and the heterogeneity in … with higher levels of education correctly reduced red meat consumption and over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …
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Academia, and economics in particular, faces increased scrutiny because of gender imbalance. This paper studies the job … supporting their students, this gender stereotyping is likely due to unconscious biases. …
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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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especially those with limited English language skills and recent data suggest that North Carolina has the 8th largest ELL student …. Rather, it is the limited English language skills of some of these students that leads to small, negative peer effects on …
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labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …
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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives …
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We analyze the impact of evaluator and candidate gender on the language used in academic evaluations using data on 295 … to evaluators, but we find no indication that the language of the assessments depends on the gender of either the … observe that the language used in evaluation reports varies significantly with applicants' productivity and professional ties …
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