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I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health...
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that information media fuels the adjustment of meaning given to significant events in contemporary society. A heightened …
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. Celebrity capital, or broadly recognizability, is conceptualized as accumulated media visibility that results from recurrent … media representations. In that sense, it is a substantial kind of capital and not a subset or special category of social or …
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during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior …
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large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work … girls. Therefore raising the return to schooling for girls may draw them out of work, but eliminating boys' wage work …
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cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …, the rates of returns to education rise by education level. The analysis suggests that, as well as overall labour girls …
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-efficacy differed significantly between boys and girls when youth and gender identities were emphasized but not when stressing personal …
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National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …
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A life-course account of the pathways to adult social exclusion for children born in 1958 is explored. We identify the pervasive childhood factors, associated with a wide range of adult disadvantage, and specific life-course domain antecedents. Childhood disadvantage has more powerful legacies...
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