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Population average gender effects [PDF]
In this paper I develop a consistent estimator of the population average treatment effect (PATE) which is based on a nonstandard version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition.
Słoczyński, Tymon
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ABSTRACT Access to finance is critical for rural non‐farm self‐employment businesses in Southeast Asia, but financial constraints and gender discrimination impede their growth. Existing literature largely overlooks vulnerable groups like rural household businesses.
Chung Thanh Phan +3 more
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Inequality of earnings between men and women from economic activities is a common phenomenon in the developing countries like Bangladesh. Similarly, wage differential between the government and private (or non-government) employees is also found in these courtiers.
Md. Shamsuddin Sarker, Md. Elias Hossain
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ABSTRACT This study examines the role of inherited circumstances in labor market inequality of opportunity in Chile. We estimate their contribution as the change in total inequality after removing their influence. Since this contribution may differ depending on whether it is measured before or after removing the influence of other factors, we use the ...
Carlos Gradín, Gabriela Zapata‐Román
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Cognitive studies on spiders have largely ignored mygalomorphs, such as tarantulas, and almost completely lack field‐based observations. We present nine observations of arboreal and fossorial New World tarantulas, including a blind cave‐dwelling species, providing evidence for possible experience‐based navigation and spatial learning during foraging ...
Alireza Zamani, Rick C. West
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Using LCMS data (2010, 2022) and Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition, this study shows that child height‐for‐age in Zambia improved (Δ ≈ −0.92 SD) due to both enhanced household conditions and stronger nutritional returns, with distinct rural and urban pathways, highlighting the need for improved sanitation, diet quality protection, and stronger urban ...
Richard Bwalya, Thomson Kalinda
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The Capability to Reduce Inequality via STEM Occupations: The Case of Ecuador
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between labor income inequality, higher education, and STEM occupations in Ecuador from 2009 to 2013 and from 2014 to 2019, considering techniques, degrees, and postgraduate education. It analyzes the “composition effect” and the “structural effect” using the recentered influence function (RIF).
Susana Herrero Olarte +3 more
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Discrimination in science: Salaries of foreign and U.S. born land‐grant university scientists
Abstract The dominance of the US innovation and academic system relies heavily on foreign‐born labor for its success. Recent literature has shown evidence of wage gaps in academia based on gender and race; however, little is known about whether a wage gap might exist for foreign‐born faculty.
Jeremy Foltz, Vikas P. D. Gawai
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Temporal reliability test of nonconsumptive wildlife recreation benefits constructed from choke price data [PDF]
Choke price data from the 2001 and 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) is used to construct welfare measures for wildlife-watching trips.
Jee W Hwang
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Migrants, Refugees and Employer Discrimination
ABSTRACT We investigate the labour market integration of humanitarian and non‐humanitarian migrants in Australia using longitudinal data from the Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) surveys.
Liwen Guo, Massimiliano Tani
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