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different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …
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Many workers are evaluated on their ability to engage with customers. We measure the impact of gender-based customer … gender of names presented to customers without changing worker behavior, we find the assignment of a female-sounding name …
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as for the design of poverty alleviation programs …
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Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs … accordance with this relative shift in applications, in 2016, the salary-offer gender gap almost disappeared …
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How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …
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In recent years, the psychological causes and consequences of poverty have received renewed attention from scientists …-dollar terms. We conclude by discussing whether a psychological poverty trap is plausible …
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Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated voice calls confirming...
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …
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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …
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