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Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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the main variables used, a report of results and tests, and discussion of the links among social capital, education …
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In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …
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This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage …. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social …
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study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …
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characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …
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a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … equalized across occupations and set to a relatively low value (i.e. Health care support), the gender gap would fall by more …
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-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes … favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …
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the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …
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With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …
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