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We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit … models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who …
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two independent surveys on the same initial sample of 8, 000 persons. The first one is a long telephone survey that had a … telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher … results. Using the enriched administrative data as benchmark, we find evidence that estimates from the long telephone survey …
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Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of lawyers in the U.S., we document a sizeable gap between men …
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Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major. Given that students are assigned to schools based on...
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Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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when it is not competitive. This prediction is then tested using data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings in the …
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors their gender affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from...
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