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The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure : A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions
Cotton, Christopher - 2010
first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … design of the competition and the task at hand. Even when the male advantage does exist, it does not persist beyond the …
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US? : A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios
Wang, Jun - 2014
manufacturing sector for Chinese enterprises for 2002 and 2007. These are then compared to available estimates for the same years … and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …
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New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data
Bayard, Kimberly - 1999
We assemble a new matched employer-employee data set covering essentially all industries and occupations across all regions of the U.S. We use this data set to re-examine the question of the relative contributions to the overall sex gap in wages of sex segregation vs. wage differences by sex...
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Do Firms Respond to Gender Pay Gap Transparency?
Bennedsen, Morten - 2019
We examine the effect of pay transparency on gender pay gap and firm outcomes. This paper exploits a 2006 legislation change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender dis-aggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee-employer administrative data and a difference-in-differences...
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The Return to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations : Implications for the Gender Wage Gap
Denning, Jeffrey T. - 2019
We document two empirical phenomena. First, the observational wage returns to hours worked within occupation is small, and even negative in some specifications. Second, the wage return to average hours worked across occupations is large. We develop a conceptual framework that reconciles these...
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Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap
Baker, Michael - 2019
We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces at different times. Using detailed...
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Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility : Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh
Menzel, Andreas - 2019
Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those found in higher-income countries. Among production workers, women's wages are 8 percent lower. We show that by combining short administrative panels, survey data from a...
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Gender in the Labor Market : The Role of Equal Opportunity and Family-Friendly Policies
Doran, Elizabeth L. - 2018
Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we...
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The Gender Gap in Housing Returns
Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul - 2020
Housing wealth represents the dominant form of savings for American households. Using detailed data on housing transactions across the United States since 1991, we find that single men earn 1.5 percentage points higher unlevered returns per year on housing relative to single women. The gender...
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