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Gender and Competition : Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; … - 2021
for academic economists over the period 1991-2008 we find that, conditional on entering the competition, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315669
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766299
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Gender and Competition: Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; … - CESifo - 2013
for academic economists over the period 1991-2008 we find that, conditional on entering the competition, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721611
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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … pressure in recent years is positively related to economists' life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040007
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951824
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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2008
Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769926
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2021
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315695
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Gender and Racial Biases : Evidence from Child Adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2021
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316268
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Competition and Gender Prejudice : Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2021
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316295