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a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …
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-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find … education and beginning tertiary education when schooling delay is taken into account, though the female gap is larger. The same …
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We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
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Research exploiting data on classic (offline) couple formation has confirmed predictions from evolutionary psychology in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine whether these human partner preferences survive in a...
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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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labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the …
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Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many …
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unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West …
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This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of fictitious resumes that are sent to real vacancies, we randomly assign activities undertaken by...
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