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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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An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2009

We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …

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Stressed Out on Four Continents : Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2003

. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher incomes and whose members work longer in the market or on … higher-income households perceive more time stress for the same amount of time spent in market work and household work. The …

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Sex Discrimination by Sex : Voting in a Professional Society

Dillingham, Alan E. - 1991

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...

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Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches

Lim, Jaegeum - 2017

We exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on standardized tests compared to male students even five years later. We also find that...

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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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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …

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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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