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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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We audit the job recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards by creating fictitious applicant profiles that differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their observed characteristics, with female jobs advertising...
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A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination across many contexts, including healthcare. Simultaneously, transgender individuals face various mental health disparities, including higher rates of depression and anxiety,...
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This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and …
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effects are stronger intra-race and that some effects do not operate through peers' achievement. For instance, both males and …
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, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured …
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Nationally representative studies consistently report significant gender and racial differences in youth smoking rates, although little research has been done to explain why. In this paper we examine one possible source for this variation: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price...
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permits researchers to match individual students and teachers, to analyze issues relating to how a teacher's race, gender, and … ethnicity, per se, influence students from both the same and different race, gender, and ethnic groups. In contrast to much of … objectively how much their students learn. On balance, we find that teachers' race, gender, and ethnicity, per se, are much more …
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