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The power of the pill : oral contraceptives and women's career and marriage decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001450336
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The power of the pill : oral contraceptives and women's career and marriage decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: Journal of political economy 110 (2002) 4, pp. 730-770
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001688149
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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000
age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a … of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471247
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Cultural Transmission and Discrimination
Saez-Marti, Maria - 2005
Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a learning and imitation process which depends on parents' purposeful investment...
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Changes in relative wages : 1963 - 1987 ; supply and demand factors
Katz, Lawrence F.; Murphy, Kevin M. - 1991
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Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education and labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083837
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Chapter 9. Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 561-624). 2015
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include a discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education, and labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025310
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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors
Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 3, pp. 228-55
The careers of MBAs from a top US business school are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male earnings advantage reaching almost 60 log...
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Mothers, peers and gender-role identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2019
We study whether a woman's labor supply as a young adult is shaped by the work behavior of her adolescent peers' mothers. Using detailed information on a sample of U.S. teenagers who are followed over time, we find that labor force participation of high school peers' mothers affects adult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038656
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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2012
the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore the … pill' in lowering the costs of long-duration professional education for women and raising the age at first marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113804