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supporting their students, this gender stereotyping is likely due to unconscious biases. …Academia, and economics in particular, faces increased scrutiny because of gender imbalance. This paper studies the job … widespread differences in the attributes emphasized. Women are systematically more likely to be described using "grindstone …
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The number of countries that have devoted time and attention to establishing gender equality regulations in academia is … increasing. However, various studies indicate that women remain underrepresented among tenured faculty and in senior positions … stable adjusted gender pay gap already exists among early-career academics who do not have children, and that the gap widens …
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research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …
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This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …
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-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …-school and elementary school age. We find no effect on high school completion for women, suggesting availability of non …
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We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression coefficient of father's (mother's) education as a predictor of daughter's education, has declined over...
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This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …
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This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 …-2019 Current Population Survey, we employ entropy balancing to create comparable samples of men and women and estimate wage gaps … for full-time employed working-age women. Adjusting for individual, occupation, and industry characteristics, we estimate …
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In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …
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-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We ….g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …
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