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Closing the Innovation Gap in Pink and Black

Cook, Lisa D.; Gerson, Janet; Kuan, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent research shows the negative impact of discrimination not only on the targets of discrimination but also on the economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes. Using new data from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates...

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Gender Differences in Medical Evaluations : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors

Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

While a growing body of evidence documents large gender disparities in health care and related social insurance programs, little is known about what drives these disparities. We leverage administrative data and random assignment of doctors to patients inherent within the workers' compensation...

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2009

-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U …

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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...

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Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People : Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey

Aksoy, Billur; Carpenter, Christopher; Sansone, Dario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using a US nationally representative sample and a double list experiment designed to elicit views free from social desirability bias, we find that anti-transgender labor market attitudes are significantly underreported. After correcting for this concealment, we report that 73 percent of people...

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When the Kids Grow Up : Women's Employment and Earnings across the Family Cycle

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...

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Childhood environment and gender gaps in adulthood

Chetty, Raj; Hendren, Nathaniel; Lin, Frina; … - 2016

We show that differences in childhood environments play an important role in shaping gender gaps in adulthood by documenting three facts using population tax records for children born in the 1980s. First, gender gaps in employment rates, earnings, and college attendance vary substantially across...

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Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap

Exley, Christine L.; Fisman, Raymond; Kessler, Judd B.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We analyze data from two universities that allowed students to conceal grades from their transcripts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Across both institutions, we observe a significant and substantial gender concealment gap: women are less likely than men to conceal grades that would harm their...

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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment … and shifts in political power. Specifically, we start with a culture set, which consists of attributes and the feasible …

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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics--magnitude, timing, and persistence--of conflict-induced migration in the short run. We use novel high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration...

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