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Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 3 Số 2 - Trang 1-33 - 2011
Victor Lavy, Analía Schlosser
We present in this paper evidence about the effects and mechanisms of gender peer effects in elementary, middle, and high schools. For identification, we rely on idiosyncratic variations in gender composition across adjacent cohorts within the same schools. We find that an increase in the proportion of girls improves boys and girls' cognitive outcomes. These academic gains are mediated through low... hiện toàn bộ
The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 5 Số 2 - Trang 232-260 - 2013
Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann, Grant Miller
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40 percent surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985–1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a ... hiện toàn bộ
Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 4 Số 4 - Trang 1-31 - 2012
Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Chong, Suzanne Duryea
We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into different markets of Globo, the main novela producer. Women living in areas covered by Globo have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and in the central and late phases of fertility, cons... hiện toàn bộ
Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 12 Số 2 - Trang 96-133 - 2020
Filippo Drago, Friederike Mengel, Christian Traxler
This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks in Austria. We exploit a field experiment that varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. The data reveal a strong treatment spillover: untreated households are more likely to switch from evasion to compliance in response to mailings received by their network neighbors. Digging deeper in... hiện toàn bộ
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 5 Số 1 - Trang 104-135 - 2013
Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend, James Vickery
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of nonsystematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and nonprice factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is significantly price sensitive, but widespread take-up would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio... hiện toàn bộ
Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 12 Số 3 - Trang 226-254 - 2020
Catherine Porter, Danila Serra
We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university. The intervention significantly impacted female students’ enrollment in further economics classes, increasing their likelihood to major in economics by 8 percentage... hiện toàn bộ
Professors in Core Science Fields Are Not Always Biased against Women: Evidence from France
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 7 Số 4 - Trang 53-75 - 2015
Thomas Breda, Son Thierry Ly
We investigate the link between how male-dominated a field is, and gender bias against women in this field. Taking the entrance exam of a French higher education institution as a natural experiment, we find that evaluation is actually biased in favor of females in more male-dominated subjects (e.g., math, philosophy) and in favor of males in more female-dominated subjects (e.g., literature, biolog... hiện toàn bộ
One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 9 Số 4 - Trang 1-29 - 2017
Quoc-Anh Do, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Anh Tran
We study patronage politics in authoritarian Vietnam, using an exhaustive panel of ranking officials from 2000 to 2010 to estimate their promotions' impact on infrastructure in their hometowns of patrilineal ancestry. Native officials' promotions lead to a broad range of hometown infrastructure improvement. Hometown favoritism is pervasive across all ranks, even among officials without budget auth... hiện toàn bộ
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