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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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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 … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …
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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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difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …
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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 … product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …
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characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …
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policies, flexible work arrangements, and gender equality. …
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that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …
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One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are … position, and controlling for important sorting of employees, the negative association is found only among lower-level managers … and not among high-level managers. We discuss decision-making power as one possible explanation for this heterogeneity. …
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A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far...
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