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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...

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The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a …

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The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

fairly uniform. We find a similar effect of TFA across the math test score distribution irrespective of student gender …

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Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment in seven states. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that the average classroom peer...

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The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Jong, Anneke; Steinberger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we document and explore three alternative explanations for the sexual orientation wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their heterosexual counterparts irrespective of marital...

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The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...

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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening racial incidents or career-related discrimination. Racial harassment significantly increases job...

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Gender-Biased Behavior at Work: What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?

Antecol, Heather; Barcus, Vanessa E.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In … particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms of gender-biased behavior and whether … support for the notion that survey-based measures of sexual harassment and gender discrimination capture the same underlying …

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The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis

Antecol, Heather - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution – highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods – if one...

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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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. …

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