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A Bit of Salt a Trace of Life - Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427167
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Stress Reactions cannot explain the Gender Gap in Willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288405
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326003
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Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices Along the Whole Ability Distribution
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan - 2017
existing evidence comes from the top of the education and talent distribution. In this study, we use incentivized choices from … over vocational education in general. At the middle, competitive boys are more likely to choose a business …-oriented apprenticeship, while competitive girls are more likely to choose a math-intensive apprenticeship or an academic education. At the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819474
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large … are strong and consistent predictors of income, occupation, completed level of education and field of study. The … in education and labor market outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427148
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Gender and the time cost of peer review
Alexander, Diane; Gorelkina, Olga; Hengel, Erin; Tol, … - 2023
In this paper, we investigate one factor that can directly contribute to-as well as indirectly shed light on the other causes of-the gender gap in academic publishing: length of peer review. Using detailed administrative data from an economics field journal, we find that, conditional on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469429
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Stress Reactions Cannot Explain the Gender Gap in Willingness to Compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135604
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A Bit of Salt a Trace of Life - Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093306
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The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking
van Ours, Jan C.; Yao, Yuxin - 2016
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586706
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Human Capital Formation: The Effect of a Miscarriage on Mental Health, Labour Market, and Family Outcomes
Rellstab, Sara; Bakx, Pieter; García-Gómez, Pilar - 2022
We investigate the effect of a miscarriage on mental health care use, labour market and family outcomes of women and their partners using Dutch linked ad- ministrative data. Miscarriages are common and largely random conditional on age. We estimate event study models using women with a completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356483