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on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …
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The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …
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idiosyncratic, such as changes in the gender and racial composition of a grade in a school in adjacent years. I use specification …
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's most distinctive trait. Applied to gender stereotypes, the model provides a unified account of disparate evidence regarding … the gender gap in education and in labor markets …
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In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …
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We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
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similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in … partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language …
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differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …
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experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions …
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the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been …
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