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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response …
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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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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that …
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This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 …
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The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career selection where juniors value both the identity and perceived quality of...
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with 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 hypothetical …, significantly reduce girls' self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender difference in labor supply between …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...
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