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This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …
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In this paper we use linked Census data to document rates of intergenerational housing mobility across ethnic groups in England and Wales. While home ownership has declined across all ethnic groups, we find substantial differences between them, with Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi households...
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differences in the intergenerational transmission of housing tenure. In this paper we use linked Census data covering 1971-2011 to …
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students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …
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This study employs 2011 Census data linked to population-based administrative datasets to explore disparities in … educational attainment and earnings trajectories among Australian-born children of diverse parental migration backgrounds from mid … ESB migrant counterparts, and highlight the importance of considering parental migration backgrounds in understanding post …
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We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a model of intergenerational … with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the father is college educated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in …) for the urban sons, and leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In …
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We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …
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divorced. Those who married prior to migration and who first married at an older age are less likely to be divorced. Those who …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
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The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
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