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dominant gender drives behavior. We conclude that men tend to seek reputation, women visibility. Thereby, female researchers … contribute more to the public good of open science. Our findings provide a new explanatory channel of the academic gender gap …
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …
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terms of attrition, to grades received is not a gender-specific characteristic but more likely to reflect gender differences …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …
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We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in … for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one’s professor is female is not sufficient to …
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Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses...
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