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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …
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endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries' general level of gender (in …
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mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears … teacher gender) help explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these explanations help in explaining a large … portion of the gender gap, we show that boys and girls differ significantly in perceptions about their own ability in math …
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the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … predominantly to sex-based grammatical gender. …
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computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational …
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effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …
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COVID-19 may accelerate the automation of jobs as employers invest in technology to safeguard against pandemics. We … females with mid- to low wage and education levels. Using comparable data for 25 other countries, we also find that women in …
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We validate survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning...
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were recorded against ethnic groups, older workers, men...
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Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position’s factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits the potential of communication to resolve conflict and reduce polarization. We test for this phenomenon in a...
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