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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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, even at a short network distances, researchers (especially men) are less likely to adopt women's ideas. Ideas from …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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