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The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a Pure Exchange Economy with Heterogeneous Investors [PDF]

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This paper presents an equilibrium model of the term structure of interest rates when investors have heterogeneous preferences. The basic model considers a pure exchange economy of two classes of investors with different (but constant) relative risk ...
Jiang Wang
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Does Gender Matter in Audit? Evidence on Earnings Management and Audit Delay from Croatia

open access: yesBusiness Systems Research
There is an expanding body of research on the relationship between auditor gender and earnings management, based on the assumption that female auditors possess specific innate characteristics relevant to external audit quality.
Šušak Toni, Stapić Ivana
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Where Economics Has Been Headed? Multiple Identities And Diversity In Economic Literature Evidence From Top Journals Over The Period 2000-2006 A First Note [PDF]

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This short paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research work focusing on richness and diversity of economic literature. The key idea is that each article published in an economic journal retains multiple identities.
Campiglio, Luigi, Caruso, Raul
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The influence of gender and social roles on academic achievement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The analysis of the influence of certain social aspects across countries on gender differences in educational achievement has gained a great relevance. In this research the main objective is to deepen into the knowledge of these cultural factors.
López, Luis   +2 more
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The gender gap in educational mismatch: evidence from the Dominican Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we test the existence of gender gaps in educational mismatch for a developing country (Dominican Republic), an interesting case study due to its recent policies of education promotion, which achieved an important increase in enrolment rates
Gomez Paulino, Evalina   +2 more
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¿POR QUÉ LAS MUJERES NO SE DISTRIBUYEN DE FORMA HOMOGÉNEA EN EL MERCADO DE TRABAJO ESPAÑOL?. El “efecto rechazo” y el “efecto atracción”

open access: yesEl Trimestre Económico, 2016
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la distribución laboral femenina en el año 2012 en el mercado de trabajo español, planteada desde una doble perspectiva: el grado de expulsión o rechazo que padecen las mujeres en las ocupaciones ...
Diego Dueñas Fernández   +2 more
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Perceptions of violence and their socio-economic determinants: evidence from transition countries

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economics
We study the socio-economic determinants of perceptions toward intimate partner violence (IPV), utilizing a novel dataset covering eight countries: Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Yaroslava Babych   +3 more
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Participación laboral de personas en situación de discapacidad. Análisis desde un enfoque de género para Colombia

open access: yesEconomía Teoría y Práctica, 2016
El presente artículo estima el impacto de tener discapacidades sobre la probabilidad de estar laboralmente activo en Colombia, a partir de la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida 2013, desde un enfoque de género.
Óscar Andrés Espinosa Acuña
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Bureaucracy, Infrastructure, and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Cities During the Progressive Era [PDF]

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Recent work in the sociology of economic development has emphasized the establishment of a professional bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private enterprise can flourish.
James E. Rauch
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