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We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
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Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
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While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented … to decompose the sources of the gender gap in STEM. We find that, of the 22 percentage points raw gap, about 13 … points of the gender gap. Additionally, differences in overall achievement between girls and boys have a negligible effect …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497975
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437075
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451222
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001312
unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …
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Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
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