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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046326
This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …
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absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion …
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absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491348
curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower bargaining power, meaning that men's preferences may constrain household adoption when decisions are joint. When low female bargaining power constrains adoption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427158
curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386454
Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower bargaining power, meaning that men's preferences may constrain household adoption when decisions are joint. When low female bargaining power constrains adoption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285517