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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers …
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, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
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.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from …
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We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is determined by the occupational choice of agents who can either work in production for a wage or become entrepreneurs. In this context, we examine the impact of redistributive...
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...
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Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile,...
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This paper studies the impact of optimism on occupational choice using a general equilibrium framework. The model shows that optimism has four main qualitative effects: it leads to a misallocation of talent, drives up input prices, raises the number of entrepreneurs, and makes entrepreneurs...
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We consider a private sector job that offers high-powered incentives and two public sector jobs that produce an identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences...
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