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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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degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
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This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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Higher technical-education institutions play an important role in training industrial scientists and engineers and generating new technologies. How well they perform this role, however, depends on their ability to recruit and retain talented faculty who have alternative options in industry;...
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This study uses Current Population Survey cohort data and the National Longitudinal Survey for men aged 14-24 in 1966 to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market for graduates. The principal finding is that the...
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This paper develops new estimates of flows into and out of unemployment that allow for unobserved heterogeneity across … workers as well as direct effects of unemployment duration on unemployment-exit probabilities. Unlike any previous paper in … shocks to the short-run, medium-run, and long-run variance of unemployment as well as to specific historical episodes. We …
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analyze data from the SIPP and find that the wages for new hires coming from unemployment are no more cyclical than those of …
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Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...
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lockdown. However, men's browsing increased by significantly more, causing gender gaps overall and in key browsing categories …'s employment. Consistent with increased childcare obligations driving the observed gender gaps, we find that gaps were greatest …
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participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions … resumption of progress in narrowing gender gaps in these areas, concluding it is unlikely without policy intervention. She then … increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market …
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