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household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …
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on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new estimator, we show that receiving a higher grade leads to far …
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We conduct beauty contest experiments, using close to 2,000 subjects to study the facial traits of CEOs. In one experiment we use pairs of photographs and find that subjects rate CEO faces as appearing more "competent" and less "likable" than non-CEO faces. Another experiment matches CEOs from...
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Entropy, or the gradual decline through age in the survivorship function, reflects the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex,...
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This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early … dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …
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of Sweden in 2000, we estimate the effect of education on stock market participation and risky asset holdings. We find …
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We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …
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Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …
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This paper examines gender differences among top business executives using a large executive-employer matched data set … which firm-level temporal flexibility and corporate culture can explain these gender differences. Although we find that … this sorting drives the gender pay gap. However, we do find evidence that corporate culture affects pay gaps within firms …
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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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