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Martina Viarengo, Ricardo Hausmann
In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them. First, skilled women are less likely to…
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In this paper, I analyze the impacts of a centuries-old social institution, the caste system, (directly) on households'access to water resources and (indirectly) on female time…
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Two experimental studies examined the effect of power-seeking intentions on backlash toward women in political office. It was hypothesized that a female politician’s career…
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Visions of the post-conflict reintegration process in Sierra Leone as a moment of healing, reconstruction, opportunity and rehabilitation do not take into account the experience…
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Can political affirmative action for women reduce gender bias? Rohini Pande, January 8, 2009, Article. "“While women have the legal right to equal participation in politics…
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Rohini Pande, January 2009:  “We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions across Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
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Iris Bohnet
Women, and particularly women in all-female groups, appear to be especially adept at providing public goods in developing countries. We use a one-shot Public Goods game to explore…
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I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into…
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This article focuses on the construction of “soldier” and “victim” by post-conflict programs in Sierra Leone. Focusing on the absence of individual testimonies and interviews that…
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In addition to facing earnings penalties because of their race and additional penalties because of their gender, black women appear to suffer a small but additional penalty…