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Gender and the Agency Problem
Is it good for a firm to have a female CEO? Are countries with more female politicians less corrupt? An increasing atten…
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The Nordic Model of Prostitution Legislation: Health, Violence and Spillover Effects
An emerging literature is studying, with the help of new types of data and clever identification strategies, the effects…
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How Are Gender-role Attitudes and Attitudes Toward Work Formed? Lesson from the Rise and Fall of the Iron Curtain
Gender differences in attitudes toward work and gender-role attitudes are important determinants of gender inequality in…
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Gender in Economics: From Survival to Career Opportunities
Gender inequality goes beyond discrimination and sexism. It is also a matter of efficiency and development, and therefor…
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SITE Academic Conference “Gender in Economics: From Survival to Career Opportunities”
This year’s SITE Academic Conference brings together leading international scholars to discuss what current research tel…
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Georgian Experience of Gender Biased Sex Selection
This policy brief presents the evidence on gender biased sex selection (GBSS) in Georgia, giving an overview of the so-c…
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Gender Equality and Economic Development: From Research to Action
It’s increasingly being acknowledged that gender inequality is not just a human rights issue, but of first order importa…
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Women Entrepreneurs in Belarus: Characteristics, Barriers and Drivers
This policy brief summarizes the results of the research on aspects of female entrepreneurship in Belarus. The aim of th…
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Economic Gender Equality Issues in Transition Economies
Until a couple of decades ago, gender was almost a non-topic within development economics.[1] But in the 1990s research…
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