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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …
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survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more …
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past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different …
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Decades of evidence reveal a complicated relationship between mammograms and mortality. Mammograms may detect deadly cancers early, but they may also lead to the diagnosis and potentially fatal treatment of cancers that would never progress to cause symptoms. I provide a brief history of the...
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Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a … lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to disproportionately respond "do not know" to questions …-third of the financial literacy gender gap can be explained by women's lower confidence levels. Both financial knowledge and …
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Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their …, namely, that CeMENT expanded the collaboration networks of the participants. Our analysis finds that women who received the …
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economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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Recent research shows the negative impact of discrimination not only on the targets of discrimination but also on the economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes. Using new data from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates...
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How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents … 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children. Mothers face comparable tenure rates to other assistant professors for … who survive in science are extremely positively selected: Compared with other married women, mothers patent (publish) 2 …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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