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when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … women. The evidence is suggestive that female mayors are less able at fostering cooperation among men, or alternatively …, that men are more reluctant to be headed by women. Other interpretations receive less support in the data. Our results may …
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context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about …
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, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon …
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in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but …
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women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …
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The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …
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differential between violent crime cases with female versus male victims. The inclusion of women also increased the likelihood of … jurors on the seated jury sharply increased conviction rates for violent crimes against women versus men …
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The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...
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Applications to elite US colleges have more than doubled over the past 20 years, with little change in the number of available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA) receive. Using data on Harvard applications over...
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We carry out a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for long-run income in Denmark and the United States. We adopt a luck-egalitarian understanding of IOp, use high-quality administrative data, and rely on highly improved methods. These include novel identification assumptions...
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