Beschreibung
In this book, the author explores a broad range of topics within the domain of the economics of gender, health and happiness. The first chapter provides the motivations for the studies and summarizes the main findings. The second chapter documents differences in educational attainment, labor market outcomes and childbearing among women by their use of headscarves and investigates the impact of the headscarf ban in Turkey on womens educational attainment, labor force participation and childbearing decisions. In Chapter 3, the author explores the relationship between presumed consent legislation and various organ donation indicators such as willingness to donate ones organs, organ donation card holding, actual organ donation rates and kidney transplantation rates. The last chapter looks at the relationship between pro-social behavior and subjective wellbeing and tries to quantify the happiness effect of donating in the Netherlands.
Autorenporträt
The author holds a BS degree in Economics from METU in Turkey. She also holds a MA degree in International Relations from Waseda University in Japan. Later,she obtained both a Research Master degree and PhD degree in Economics from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Zeynep is mainly interested in health, labor and public economics.
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