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Performance in mixed-sex and single-sex tournaments : what we can learn from speedboat races in Japan
Booth, Alison L.; Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...
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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
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Do workers discriminate against female bosses?
Abel, Martin - 2019
I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female...
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The prostitute's allure : examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination
Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010
We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...
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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources
Antman, Francisca M. - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...
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Discrimination against women in hiring
Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D.; Weaver, Andrew - 2023
We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half (51%) of establishments directly admit that they prefer to hire men. The share varies widely across...
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Breastfeeding practices and parental employment in Japan
Kobayashi, Miki; Usui, Emiko - 2014
Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan …. To fill this research gap, this paper uses data newly gathered in 2012 on breastfeeding initiation and duration for each …
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Violent conflict and breastfeeding : the case of Iraq
Diwakar, Vidya; Malcolm, Michael; Naufal, George - 2017
This study explores the relationship between armed conflict and breastfeeding practices of Iraqi mothers. Using a … Iraq, we find that increases in conflict-related casualties are associated with a decline in breastfeeding incidence, with … some mixed results on breastfeeding duration. We also explore a number of potential causal channels, including interactions …
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Unintended consequences of family planning policies on the breastfeeding gap between sons and daughters
Chae, Minhee; Cai, Yong; Kim, Jun Hyung; Lavely, William R. - 2023
in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean …
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Breastfeeding and child development outcomes across early childhood and adolescence : doubly robust estimation with machine learning
Khudri, Md Mohsan; Hussey, Andrew - 2024
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate the impact of breastfeeding initiation and duration on … somewhat with age. In contrast, we find mixed evidence regarding the impact of breastfeeding on non-cognitive (health and … marginal benefits of breastfeeding duration beyond 12 months for cognitive outcomes and 6 months for non-cognitive outcomes. …
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