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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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on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …
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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …
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measurement of trends in occupation segregation by gender, very little work has focused on the underlying job choice process that … suggest that women choose safer jobs than men. Within gender, we find that single moms or dads are most averse to fatal risk …
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This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...
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individuals who differ according to gender; education; race; and age. The main finding is that there are important differences …
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's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures … and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap. Since it is likely that labor market … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …
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A combination of changing migration patterns and US immigration restrictions acted to shift the male-female balance in many ethnic groups in the early 20th Century. I use this variation to study the consequences of changing sex ratios for the children of immigrants. Immigrant sex ratios affected...
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wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian …
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This paper studies the gender compensation gap among high-level executives in US corporations. We use the ExecuComp … are less likely to be CEO, Chair, or President of their company. The unexplained gender gap can be reduced to less than 5 … of a significant gender gap (once we control for measurable characteristics) implies that women and men who hold similar …
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