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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa
Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in … introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and … female students working with male advisors when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white and black …
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Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities
Cohen, Alma; Karelitz, Tzur; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that … the change to a more gender-neutral language was associated with a significant improvement in the performance of women on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322787
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STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...
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Nothing Propinks Like Propinquity : Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effects of Spatial Proximity in the Major League Baseball Draft
Ahmadi, Majid; Durst, Nathan; Lachman, Jeff; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent models and empirical work on network formation emphasize the importance of propinquity in producing strong interpersonal connections. Yet, one might wonder how deep such insights run, as thus far empirical results rely on survey and lab-based evidence. In this study, we examine...
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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education : Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Bennhoff, Frederik H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data … education program. Annual observations of participant outcomes up to midlife allow us to provide a cost-benefit analysis without …
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Stress Testing Structural Models of Unobserved Heterogeneity : Robust Inference on Optimal Nonlinear Pricing
Bodoh-Creed, Aaron L.; Hickman, Brent R.; List, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In this paper, we provide a suite of tools for empirical market design, including optimal nonlinear pricing in intensive-margin consumer demand, as well as a broad class of related adverse-selection models. Despite significant data limitations, we are able to derive informative bounds on demand...
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Differences in How and Why Social Comparison and Real-Time Feedback Impact Resource Use : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular interventions for resource conservation. The first intervention is social comparison reports (SC), which primarily provide consumers with information motivating behavioral change. The second intervention is real-time feedback (RTF),...
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Enhancing Human Capital in Children : A Case Study on Scaling
Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico. Our analysis encompasses two separate field experiments, and takes advantage of a unique opportunity to learn from the government's implementation of the program on a large...
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IV Methods Reconcile Intention-to-Screen Effects Across Pragmatic Cancer Screening Trials
Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Pragmatic cancer screening trials mimic real-world scenarios in which patients and doctors are the ultimate arbiters of treatment. Intention-to-screen (ITS) analyses of such trials maintain randomization-based apples-to-apples comparisons, but differential adherence (the failure of subjects...
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The Power to Conserve : A Field Experiment on Electricity Use in Qatar
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Cassidy, Alecia Waite; Chatterjee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
High resource users often have the strongest response to behavioral interventions promoting conservation. Yet, litlle is known about how to motivate them. We implement a field experiment in Qatar, where residential customers have some of the highest energy use per capita in the world. Our...
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