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The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure : A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions

Cotton, Christopher - 2010

first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … design of the competition and the task at hand. Even when the male advantage does exist, it does not persist beyond the …

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the Us? : A Comparison of China -Us Industrial Concentration Ratios

Wang, Jun - 2014

manufacturing sector for Chinese enterprises for 2002 and 2007. These are then compared to available estimates for the same years … and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

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Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills : Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

Bailey, Martha J. - 2012

Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for...

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The Gender Wage Gap : Extent, Trends, and Explanations

Blau, Francine D. - 2016

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...

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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

Aizer, Anna - 2007

Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...

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Gender in the Labor Market : The Role of Equal Opportunity and Family-Friendly Policies

Doran, Elizabeth - 2018

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we...

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Do Firms Respond to Gender Pay Gap Transparency?

Bennedsen, Morten - 2019

We examine the effect of pay transparency on gender pay gap and firm outcomes. This paper exploits a 2006 legislation change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender disaggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee-employer administrative data and a difference-in-differences and...

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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

Blau, Francine D. - 2010

Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our data distinguish our analysis from the previous...

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