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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices
Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Buser, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …
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Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita
Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
environment where police officers are heterogenous in their tastes for discrimination and in their costs of search and motorists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248682
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Behavioral Law and Economics
Jolls, Christine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Behavioral economics has been a growing force in many fields of applied economics, including public economics, labor economics, health economics, and law and economics. This paper describes and assesses the current state of behavioral law and economics. Law and economics had a critical (though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720276
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Dress for Success -- Does Primping Pay?
Hamermesh, Daniel; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Junsen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
A unique survey of Shanghai residents in 1996 that combined labor-market information, appraisals of respondents' beauty, and household expenditures allows us to examine the relative magnitudes of the investment and consumption components of women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828629
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Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Differentials Among Men and Women: A Longitudinal Analysis
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
differences between black and white workers. Do the differences reflect productivity differences, discrimination, or both? If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829148
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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
Persico, Nicola; Knowles, John; Todd, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777687
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Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960
Donohue, John J.; Heckman, James J.; Todd, Petra E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
Improvements in educational attainment and in educational quality are universally acknowledged to be major contributors to black economic progress in the twentieth century. The sources of these improvements are less well understood. Many scholars implicitly assume improvements in schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580621
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The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
Hurst, Erik; Jones, Charles I.; Hsieh, Chang-Tai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Over the last 50 years, there has been a remarkable convergence in the occupational distribution between white men, women, and blacks. We measure the macroeconomic consequences of this convergence through the prism of a Roy model of occupational choice in which women and blacks face frictions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821806
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?
Jacob, Brian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008610966
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Welfare Implications of Learning Through Solicitation versus Diversification in Health Care
Basu, Anirban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper uses Roy's model of sorting behavior to study welfare implication of current health care data production infrastructure that relies on solicitation of research subjects. We show that due to severe adverse-selection issues, directionality of bias cannot be established and welfare may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950736