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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018
mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly …
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Gender Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor and Spatial Aptitudes
Baker, Michael - 2016
Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in the directions indicated by this research. We simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992143
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Marriage Bars : Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920'S to 1950'S
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...
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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
Kunze, Astrid - 2015
population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include unusually detailed job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031300
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The Effect of Oef/Oif Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2010
This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151650
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Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880
Lee, Chulhee - 2006
experiences of soldiers influenced their civilian lives after the war. This paper examines how military rank and duty of Union … Army soldiers while in service affected their post-service occupational mobility. Higher ranks and non-infantry duties … were more likely to enter a white-collar occupation by 1880. The higher occupational mobility of higher-ranking soldiers is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779325
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Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers
Lee, Chulhee - 2009
soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter … differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764831
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Military Officer Quality in the All-Volunteer Force
Cancian, Matthew - 2015
We show a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful decline in the intelligence of Marine Officers from 1980 to 2014 as measured by their scores on the General Classification Test (GCT) which has been shown to be a good predictor of success in the military. This contrasts with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019106
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Public and Private Options in Practice : The Military Health System
Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Justicz, Timothy - 2021
Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans Health Administration, highlight the dispute between public and private provision of health care services. Using novel data on childbirth claims from the MHS and drawing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239968
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Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance : Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion
Boyle, Melissa Ann - 2014
Measuring the overall impact of public health insurance receipt is important in an era of increased access to publicly-provided and subsidized insurance. Although government expansion of health insurance to older workers leads to labor supply reductions for recipients, there may be spillover...
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