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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather - 2011

Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers … workers' perceptions of discrimination that drive formal complaints to the EEOC. Yet the relationship between statistical and … self-assessed measures of discrimination is far from obvious. We expand on the previous literature by using data from the …

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather - 2011

This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...

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Gender-biased redistribution and intra-household distribution

Dasgupta, Indraneel - In: European economic review : EER 45 (2001) 9, pp. 1711-1722

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The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather - 2012

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory results found in the economics literature and the educational psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having...

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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...

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Gender-Biased Behavior at Work : What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?

Antecol, Heather; Barcus, Vanessa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2021

This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In … support for the notion that survey-based measures of sexual harassment and gender discrimination capture the same underlying … behavior. Respondents do appear to differentiate between incidents of sexual harassment and incidents of gender discrimination …

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