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The far-reaching consequences of failing to complete secondary schooling are well known. The central questions addressed in this study are: Does religion make a difference in the likelihood of successfully completing the transition to high-school graduation? If so, how large are the influences?...
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age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …
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representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …
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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability …. We find that for non-Hispanic white women, the probability of dissolution falls with age up to ages 30-32 and thereafter …
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Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than …
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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 …
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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...
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