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Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations

This paper tests for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs

Do output contractions trigger democratic change?

Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, this paper examines the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater democracy

Mind the gap?
Permanent income inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States compared

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility

Precipitation, profits, and pile-ups

This paper estimates the impact of increased rainfall on traffic accident fatalities

Bias at the ballot box?

Using data from all elections to the Australian House of Representatives between 1903 and 2004, this paper examines the relationship between candidates’ gender and their share of the vote

Making prison work
Do household handouts help?
Long-run trends in school productivity: evidence from Australia

Outside the United States, very little is known about long-run trends in school productivity

Estimating teacher effectiveness from two-year changes in students' test scores

The top 10 per cent of teachers are twice as effective as the bottom 10 per cent, according to this paper

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