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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
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physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …
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curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
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intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received …
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We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
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Wage transparency regulation is widely considered and adopted as a tool to reduce the gender wage gap. We combine field … that this regulation does not affect the gender wage gap. In an online laboratory experiment, we study whether the failure … of these types of information reduce the gender wage gap. Wage information even deters women from entering negotiations. …
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
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We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for … a triple difference strategy across gender, cohorts and regions. We find that the admission cap was binding, as it …
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