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Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …
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We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …?s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that teacher effects can last up to five years. This study used high-quality data from a four-year...
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Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term)...
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Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
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