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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest

Munshi, Kaivan - 2008

This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...

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The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market

Olivetti, Claudia; Pan, Jessica; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This chapter traces the evolution of the study of gender in the labor market, focusing on how academic thinking on this topic has evolved alongside real world developments in gender inequality from the 1980s to the present. We present a simple model of female labor supply to illustrate how...

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Gender

Niederle, Muriel - 2014

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in competition are large and robust, the results are much...

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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Niederle, Muriel - 2008

Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects competitive entry. We find that when women are...

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Gender : An Historical Perspective

Giuliano, Paola - 2017

Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these differences are transmitted from parents to children...

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Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using the EconLit dissertation database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics from names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent...

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The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa

Anderson, Siwan; Du Plessis, Sophia; Parsa, Sahar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Research on female political representation has tended to overlook the traditional role of women as leaders across many societies. Our study aims to address this gap by investigating the enduring influence of historical female political leadership on contemporary formal political representation...

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The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group

Barrera, Sergio E.; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

county migration, particularly among non-Hispanic Whites, Asians, and Native Americans. Migration differences were minor for …

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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....

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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

Kennan, John - 2003

The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

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