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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

Blau, Francine D. - 2006

Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we …

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Mental Health Stigma

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015

Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey … about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are significantly less likely to under-report other conditions such as …

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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods

Barrett, Garry - 2013

rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top income shares are then considered in tandem with coverage rates. Falls …This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess …

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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys

Leicester, Andrew - 2013

such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …

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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

Exley, Christine L. - 2019

In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap...

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Improving Management through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing

Cai, Jing - 2020

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women

Levine, Phillip J. - 1999

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...

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Leaning In or Not Leaning Out? Opt-Out Choice Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete

He, Joyce - 2019

In most organizations, promotions often require self-nomination and competition among applicants. However, research on gender differences in preferences for competition suggests that this process might result in fewer women choosing to participate. We study whether changing promotion schemes...

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Behavioral Corporate Finance : The Life Cycle of a CEO Career

Guenzel, Marius - 2020

One of the fastest-growing areas of finance research is the study of managerial biases and their implications for firm outcomes. Since the mid-2000s, this strand of behavioral corporate finance has provided theoretical and empirical evidence on the influence of biases in the corporate realm,...

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