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hardly any effects of teacher's gender, age, pay level, qualifications, or working hours on boys' or girls' school track … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …
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This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical … and reading gender gaps. We use rich administrative data from Chile, that allows us to follow teachers through different … reduce the gender gap in math by 16.9%. The reduction in the math gender gap is greater in voucher schools (16.1%), among …
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and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … further examine the flows in the Czech Republic by estimating gender-specific multinomial logit models to learn which factors …
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This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …
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This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …
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and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …
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Online experiment involving 500 participants. We find substantial gender differences in which ideas people are choosing to …-fields in general increase exposure to female ideas but do not lead to an over-representation of either gender conditional on …
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The paper explores the impact of the gender composition of Boards of Directors on gender diversity and earnings gaps … positive spillovers on the gender gaps within the firms. Quality is viewed as the power, conceptualized as the possible … negative impact. However, male directors' connections to females positively decrease the gender gaps. Interestingly, the …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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The paper studies the relative effectiveness of extrinsic monetary disincentives and intrinsic non-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger...
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