This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market … recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that … displacement. When accounting for observable differences in human Capital across men and women, half of the gender gap in …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds … is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns to tertiary education separately by subject of degree for the …, which is coherent with the relatively high returns to this group. One interesting finding is that each gender reaches the …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

innovation are limited to cancer patients with postsecondary education, raising concerns about unequal access to improved …