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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 …
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in preferences also have implications in group settings, whereby the gender composition of a group affects team decisions … 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 …
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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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This paper studies the role of quality competition in endogenous growth and institutional factors which can affect growth through affecting quality competition. The R&D-based growth literature as it stands attributes the incentives for innovations to monopolist market structure, and regards the...
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analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich (Jiangsu) Chinese province we are able to test for different types of gender bias … household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for …
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The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...
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There is an enormous literature on gender gaps in pay and labour market participation but virtually no literature on … gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in … show that, in countries where there is a large gender gap in unemployment rates, there is a gender gap in both flows from …
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The sizable gender gap in college enrolment, especially among African Americans, constitutes a puzzling empirical … gender gap in educational attainment across and within races. …
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fertility. En passant, we probe a subject of much confusion - the relation between fertility decline and gender bias. …
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Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.
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