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Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle. We analyze absenteeism of teachers and find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a...
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It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
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relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …
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-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
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Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential … explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women … parameters suggest an explanation: women are more likely to be on the margin of giving, partly because of a less dispersed …
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The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …
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Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to …
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Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions … controlling for covariates. However, family characteristics have different impacts on women's and men's promotion probabilities …
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in the household division of labor. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that incentive problems in the labor market amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials...
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