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Academic peer effects with different group assignment policies : residential tracking versus random assignment

Garlick, Robert - 2016

I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This lowers mean GPA and raises GPA dispersion. I also directly estimate peer...

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The causal status of social capital in labor markets

Fernandez, Roberto M.; Galperin, Roman V. - 2012

There is a rich tradition of research on how social capital operates in the labor market. Much of this research adopts a supply-side perspective, and examines how network factors influence job seekers' success in the labor market. Recent research by Mouw (2003, 2006), however, has called into...

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Glass ceilings and glass doors : internal and external hiring in an organizational hierarchy

Fernandez, Roberto M.; Abraham, Mabel Botelho - 2011

: the percentage of females declines over increasing levels of the hierarchy. However, when considering the gender … organizational hierarchy. For both internals and externals, a key factor producing differences in gender composition across levels of …

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Gender sorting and the glass ceiling in high tech

Fernandez, Roberto M.; Campero, Santiago - 2012

Past studies of gender and hierarchy document that the proportion of women declines as one looks up levels of the … explained by observed human capital factors of education, work, and management experience. Networks also contribute to this … do males. In addition to these gender differences at the point of application, we find evidence that demand …

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A jury of Her peers : the impact of the first female jurors on criminal convictions

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2016

This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made females eligible to serve on English juries, providing a novel setting...

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