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Anatomy of Lifetime Earnings Inequality : Heterogeneity in Job Ladder Risk vs. Human Capital

Karahan, Fatih - 2020

We study the determinants of lifetime earnings (LE) inequality in the United States, for which differences in lifetime … earnings growth are key. Using administrative data and focusing on the roles of job ladder dynamics and on-the-job learning, we … document that:1) lower LE workers change jobs more often, mainly driven by higher non-employment; 2) earnings growth for job …

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Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Albanesi, Stefania - 2015

Maternal mortality was the second-leading cause of death for women in childbearing years up until the mid-1930s in the United States. For each death, twenty times as many mothers were estimated to suffer pregnancy-related conditions, often leading to severe and prolonged disablement. Poor...

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Importing Equality? The Effects of Increased Competition on the Gender Wage Gap

Black, Sandra E. - 2009

It is now well documented that the gender wage gap declined substantially in the 1980s, despite rising overall wage inequality. While Blau and Kahn (JoLE 1997) attribute much of this improvement to gains in women's relative labor market experience and other observable characteristics, a...

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Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle

Mukoyama, Toshihiko - 2014

We create a novel measure of job search effort starting in 1994 by exploiting the overlap between the Current Population Survey and the American Time Use Survey. We examine the cyclical behavior of aggregate job search effort using time series and cross-state variation and find that it is...

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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S

Cortes, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - 2022

We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...

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Gender Discrimination and Social Identity : Experimental Evidence from Urban Pakistan

Delavande, Adeline - 2014

Gender discrimination in South Asia is a well-documented fact. However, gender is only one of an individual's many identities. This paper investigates how gender discrimination depends on the social identities of interacting parties. We use an experimental approach to identify gender...

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Gender and the Availability of Credit to Privately Held Firms : Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel A. - 2018

This study analyzes differences by gender in the ownership of privately held U.S. firms and examines the role of gender in the availability of credit. Using data from the nationally representative Surveys of Small Business Finances, which span a period of sixteen years, we document a series of...

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The Gender Gap in Mathematics : Evidence from a Middle-Income Country

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015

Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...

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Gender and Dynamic Agency : Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives

Albanesi, Stefania - 2015

We document three new facts about gender differences in executive compensation. First, female executives receive a lower share of incentive pay in total compensation relative to males. This difference accounts for 93 percent of the gender gap in total pay. Second, the compensation of female...

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Selection Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments

Casari, Marco; Ham, John C.; Kagel, John H. - 2005

We find clear demographic and ability effects on bidding in common value auctions: inexperienced women are much more susceptible to the winner's curse than men, controlling for SAT/ACT scores and college major; economics and business majors substantially overbid relative to other majors; and...

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