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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion …
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Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower bargaining power, meaning that men's preferences may constrain household adoption when decisions are joint. When low female bargaining power constrains adoption of the...
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curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …
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We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large … are strong and consistent predictors of income, occupation, completed level of education and field of study. The … that of the other traits. Gender differences in competitiveness can explain 5-10 percent of the observed gender differences …
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
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-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education. …
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Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …
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