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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309090
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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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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development
Bloom, David E. - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457257
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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
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The future of work : challenges for job creation due to global demographic change and automation
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; … - 2020
We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169699