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We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and … women and Hispanics are under-represented. We also document that news content perpetuates common stereotypes such as … gender and ethnic identity of authors and editors. …
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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 …
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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 … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …
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choices using the example of child care - a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 … Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …
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margin does not increase the likelihood that men form families. In contrast, women admitted to further education are more … observed in the data is driven by selection. For women, our estimates are consistent with the idea that, as increased returns … make women more attractive as potential partners. …
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well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … different ways. Specifically, East German women were required to work full-time whereas West German women were expected to focus …
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How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the … prior tournament is unfair, i.e., a loss is no longer necessarily based on merit, women are more discouraged than men. These …
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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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. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and …
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