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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?
Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022698
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How well are women represented at the AEA meeting? : a study of the 1985 - 2010 programs
Cunningham, Rosemary T.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548188
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Gender gaps in the evaluation of research : evidence from submissions to economics conferences
Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - 2019
-2017), and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2017), we find that all-female-authored papers are 3.2 p.p. (6.8%) less likely …) referee fixed effects, (iii) field, (iv) cites of the paper at submission year, (v) previous publication record of the authors …
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403509
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Male gatekeepers gender bias in the publishing process?
Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017
Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738846
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Evaluating yourself and your peers
Ma, Mingye; Riener, Gerhard; Xu, Youzong - 2024
We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We construct a model of (self-)deception to predict outcomes for scenarios with and without self-evaluation. By using unique data from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053870
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Gender differences in strategic behaviour under competitive pressure : evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and business use to choose their students. These exams are multiple choice tests where wrong answers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257343
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The competitive earning incentive for sons : evidence from migration in China
Li, Wenchao; Yi, Junjian - 2015
This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our estimates show that on average, the first child being a son increases the father's migration probability by 25.2 percent. We hypothesize that the family's competitive earning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307893
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Courtesy and idleness : gender differences in team work and team competition
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta (contributor);  … - 2005
in a competitive environment. -- team incentives ; gender ; tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003248141
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Labour market effects of the polytechnic education reform : the Finnish experience
Böckerman, Petri; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Uusitalo, Roope - 2009
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics. Since the timing of the reform differed across schools, we can compare the performance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810332