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a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....
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This paper investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The empirical analysis exploits two-stage elections in the United States and Italy to hold the selection of candidates constant. In two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the...
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We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers will, on average, be more skilled than male managers, since females from the low end of the talent distribution will abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average...
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various … choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask … broadly for information about a career, we find that female students receive substantially more information on work …
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. Using new administrative data for the universe of students in consecutive cohorts in Greece, we find that a higher share of … female neighbors improves both male and female students' high school and university outcomes. We also find that female … students are more likely to enroll in STEM degrees and target more lucrative occupations when they are exposed to a higher …
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This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...
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Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can lead to a misallocation of … educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a … schooling efforts of high-performing students, treated low-performing students reduced their educational investments. We develop …
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