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The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated among the less educated and younger groups within the...
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employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross …
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The gender unemployment gap, the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until the early … for most of the closing of the gender unemployment gap. Evidence from nineteen OECD countries is consistent with this … finding. We show that gender differences in industry composition are the main source of the cyclicality of the unemployment …
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Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...
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Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
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observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
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Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …
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This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...
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analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …
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The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...
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