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attitudes regarding Title IX and women's rights are correlated with this remaining gender gap. Examining individual high school …
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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …
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pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women …We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …
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larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a …
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Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … there are no significant changes for men. Interestingly, there is no gender-based difference in preferences for …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …
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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 …Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees …
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less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a … reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms, they largely ignore individual heterogeneity, such as gender … differences. We experimentally analyze gender differences in prisoner’s dilemmas, where collusive behavior harms a passive third …
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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …
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gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by …
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