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large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify … the marginal female and male candidates for supervisory positions and randomly assign them to manage production lines … female and male supervisor candidates; (ii) initially, marginal female candidates have lower productivity and evaluations …
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did not exit the labor force in large numbers, and they did not greatly decrease their hours of work. The aggregate female …
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Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children...
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We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit matched employer-employee data from Sweden to characterize a model-based index of workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect...
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This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household production, including time with children. In looking at...
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Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low … decline of independent pharmacies played key roles in the creation of a more family-friendly, female-friendly pharmacy …
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This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on...
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This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
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-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring of female venture capitalists increased substantially after the trial and that the … founders who are female increases after the Pao Trial, but that the increase is driven entirely by the hiring of female venture … capitalists. There is no increase in the propensity of male venture capitalists to invest in female founders in the post-Pao Trial …
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were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …
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