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Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2011

The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...

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Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap : Incentives and Expectations

Albanesi, Stefania - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the … market are key in our story. The main assumptions are that the utility cost of work effort is increasing in home hours, and …

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The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches : Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea

Lim, Jaegeum - 2015

Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but …

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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan - 2013

favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …

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