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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...
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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'
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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457728
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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel - 2011
. 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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