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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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to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to … change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive, expensive, and is not always desired. In the present work state … highlight the detrimental economic impact of surgical requirements for transgender people to be able to reassign gender on birth …
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introduction of the law, in a difference-in-differences specifi- cation. We find that the imposition of the gender quota only … characteristics other than gender. …
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gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender … hireability and 21 statements related to specific gender stereotypes. Moreover, we experimentally manipulate both the gender …We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters …
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Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In … addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in …
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We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 … the math background in driving the Economics gender gap relative to other fields. Fourth, a triple difference analysis of … in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …
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In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct a field experiment by sending over 1600 fictitious job applications to real job openings posted on one of the largest job search portals in the country. The job applicants...
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Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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towards traditional gender roles. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross …-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European countries for the analysis. The causal impact of education on gender role … instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education's moderating effect …
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