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Gender gaps in early educational achievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388336
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Getting ahead : the determinants of and payoffs to internal promotion for young U.S. men and women
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401197
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Bias in the legal profession : self-assessed versus statistical measures of discrimination
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - 2011
that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups. -- labor market discrimination ; lawyers ; gender and racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310046
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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009
on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained. -- Noncognitve skills ; personality ; occupation ; gender wage gap ; decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872720
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Do non-cognitive skills help explain the occupational segregation of young people?
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2010
occupations in which they are employed. -- non-cognitive skills ; occupation ; youth ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779961
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Gender gaps in early educational schievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415270
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579650
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Migrant youths' educational achievement : the role of institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581046
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307310
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310812