labor market. Assuming that academic competition is fair and that individual talent is equally distributed by gender, we … suggest that the gender gap evident in degree scores is endogenously due to the greater effort exerted by female students. We …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic … groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are … hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender gap in competitive inclination. …

In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring … practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field … differentials. We hypothesize that social norms advocating for gender equality significantly drive these preferences, and …

The effect of education on wages has been a widely explored topic. This paper will contribute to the existing … literature by studying the causal effect of education on wages in China, a context which has been far less studied. China …'s compulsory education laws and minimum age labor laws provide potentially exogenous changes in educational attainment. The first …

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 …

Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …

Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable … organization have put so much emphasis on supporting educational expansion and improvement in Africa. However, education in Africa …