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Women in Engineering: The Role of Role Models
Agurto, M.; Bazan, M.; Hari, S.; Sarangi, S. - 2021
Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In … addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in …
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Biased Teachers and Gender Gap in Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India
Rakshit, Sonali; Sahoo, Soham - 2020
students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294335
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Contact vs. Information: What shapes attitudes towards immigration? Evidence from an experiment in schools
Florio, Erminia - 2020
We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome. Half of the classes meet a refugee from Mauritania,...
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Diving in the minds of recruiters: What triggers gender stereotypes in hiring?
Van Borm, Hannah; Baert, Stijn - 2022
gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender … hireability and 21 statements related to specific gender stereotypes. Moreover, we experimentally manipulate both the gender …We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters …
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Adams and Eves: The Gender Gap in Economics Majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 … the math background in driving the Economics gender gap relative to other fields. Fourth, a triple difference analysis of … in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …
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The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021
Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...
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Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
Neyt, Brecht; Baert, Stijn; Vynckier, Jana - 2019
Research exploiting data on classic (offline) couple formation has confirmed predictions from evolutionary psychology in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine whether these human partner preferences survive in a...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
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The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660930
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Sexual Orientation and Earnings. A Meta-Analysis 2012-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This meta-analysis utilizes 24 papers published between 2012-2020 that focus on earnings differences by sexual orientation. The papers cover the period between 1991 and 2018, and countries in Europe, North America and Australia. The meta-analysis indicates that gay men earned less than...
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