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How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...
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We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
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other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
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equilibrium Roy model with gender-specific frictions. If female workers experience higher frictions in nonagricultural sectors …
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of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the effect of gender composition and leadership on … authority, the second study also varied the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially …
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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
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Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
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names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite … 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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Female physicians remain underrepresented in surgical specialties in Japan. The 2004 New Postgraduate Medical Education Program mandated a two-year rotating residency that allowed residents to choose their specialty after training in multiple fields, including surgery. Following this reform,...
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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