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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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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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. 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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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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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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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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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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