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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 … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the...
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This paper analyses the ECB communication, focusing in particular on its transparency dimension. We posit that if the …, rather than substitute, information with respect to economic and monetary variables. …
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In a model of career concerns for experts, when is the principal hurt from observing more information about her agent …? This paper introduces a distinction between information on the consequence of the agent's action and information directly … transparency on action is detrimental to the principal. The paper also shows the existence of complementarities between …
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these signals sufficiently differ. We derive some implications for information dissemination policy. Transparency in this … on an informational structure, which sets free from the strict separation between public information and private … information. Diverse pieces of public information can be taken into account differently by players and are likely to lead to …
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of economic transparency in the conduct of monetary policy. We propose a model … instrument and the central bank optimally balances the action and information purposes of its instrument. We derive the optimal … monetary policy and the optimal central bank's disclosure. We define transparency as an announcement by the central bank that …
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How does transparency, a key feature of central bank design, affect the deliberation of monetary policymakers? We … (particularly Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to measure the effect of increased transparency on debate. Commentators have hypothesized … the career concerns literature uncovers evidence for both effects. However, the net effect of increased transparency …
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community. Three coordination tensions are identified at different temporal dimensions, namely obtaining adequate transparency …
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How does transparency, a key feature of central bank design, affect the deliberation of monetary policymakers? We … (particularly Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to measure the effect of increased transparency on debate. Commentators have hypothesized … the career concerns literature uncovers evidence for both effects. However, the net effect of increased transparency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126095