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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …
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Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …
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young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial …
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