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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
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Do information and communication technologies empower female workers? : firm-level evidence from Viet Nam
Chun, Natalie; Tang, Heiwai - 2018
physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011856332
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607746
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651717
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Non-college occupations, workplace routinization, and the gender gap in college enrollment
Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023
This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250544
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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring : biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?
Baert, Stijn - 2015
unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280058
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604711
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The salary taboo : privacy norms and the diffusion of information
Cullen, Zoë B.; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2020 - This Draft: January 2020
discuss implications for pay transparency policies and the gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175687
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Informed choices : gender gaps in career advice
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428940
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Informed choices: gender gaps in career advice
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430674