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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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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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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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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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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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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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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