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, even at a short network distances, researchers (especially men) are less likely to adopt women's ideas. Ideas from …
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The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...
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arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment … RCTs showed moderate success in encouraging more women to major in economics. We speculate on the reasons for differential …
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-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that choice is important … college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …
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more pageant-related internet search behavior following a home-state win. Teen girls and pageant-aged women with home …-state winners were more likely to report that they were trying to lose weight, and pregnant women gained less gestational weight. We … do not detect meaningful changes for teen boys, young adult men, or older women for whom social comparisons were …
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We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …
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Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …
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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … modest on average but larger for married women than for unmarried women and for those working in COVID-impacted industries …
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between women's labor force participation and fertility. The economics of fertility has entered a new era because these … some cases reversed, and the cross-country relationship between women's labor force participation and fertility is now … theories is that they view factors that determine the compatibility of women's career and family goals as key drivers of …
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