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The prostitute's allure : examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination
Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010
estimated premium for above average beauty is only slightly larger than that estimated for women elsewhere, and the penalty for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688864
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The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students
Mansour, Hani - 2020
Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479345
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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj - 2008
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464742
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On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives
Arunachalam, Raj - 2006
Dowries have been modeled as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid to in-laws. These two classes of models yield mutually exclusive predictions, but empirical tests of these predictions have been mixed. We argue that the heterogeneity of findings can be explained by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466031
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The effects of professor gender on the post-graduation outcomes of female students
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2018
Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913023
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Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018
Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785770
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When women's work disappears : marriage and fertility decisions in Peru
Mansour, Hani; Medina, Pamela; Velásquez, Andrea - 2023
This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline industrial composition. On average, the increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326206