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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
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Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the labour market. Dr Ghazala Azmat and Professor Barbara Petrongolo explore what has been learned about the extent to which differences in men and women's pay and employment...
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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …
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the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two … findings suggest that employers were not sexist. First, differences in earnings by gender for workers paid piece rates can be …
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Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of … case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial incentives in health. We consider how incentives affect effort in a physical activity task - and then how they spillover to subsequent eating behaviour. Compared to a control group,...
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The randomized controlled trial (RCT) has been a heavily utilized research tool in medicine for over 60 years. Since the early 2000's, large-scale RCTs have been used in increasingly large numbers in the social sciences to evaluate questions of both policy and theory. The early economics...
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. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … gender gap disappears in tests taken at the end of high school, which count for 50% of the university entry grade. …
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who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous …
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