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of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …
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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
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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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To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances … facts: (1) there is a clear gender difference in the timing of job offer acceptance, with women accepting jobs substantially … earlier than men, and (2) the gender earnings gap in accepted offers narrows in favor of women over the course of the job …
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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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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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their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … earns less than her potential if she does work. Couples where the wife earns more than the husband are less satisfied with …
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