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We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
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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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to examine the effects of losing a parent on individual labor market outcomes and its contribution to gender earnings … significantly contributes to the gender pay gap. Lastly, we show that women experience a greater decline in earnings if their … for individuals who experience parental death and emphasize the role of informal care in contributing to gender pay …
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-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
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We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …
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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …
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education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia … inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
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labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the …
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Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
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