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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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Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas
Cheng, Wei; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, even at a short network distances, researchers (especially men) are less likely to adopt women's ideas. Ideas from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616627
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Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs
Bostwick, Valerie K. - 2018
across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480681
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Opting For Families : Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women
Shang, Qingyan - 2009
Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …; and study the period from 1940 to 2006. In contrast to most existing work, we find that college graduate women are indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463575
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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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Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research
Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544721
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Half empty and half full? : women in economics and the rise in gender-related research
Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - 2024
stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529752