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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review

Ericson, Thomas - 2005

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are discussed, and empirical research on wage effects is...

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Rent sharing and gender discrimination in collegiate athletics

Lackner, Mario; Zulehner, Christine - 2013

In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...

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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity

Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Togler, Benno - 2012

Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...

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Schooling externalities, technology and productivity: theory and evidence from US states

Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - 2006

The recent literature on externalities of schooling in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education are hardly found at all, while often positive externalities from the share of college graduates are identified. This paper proposes a simple model to explain this fact...

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Educational financing and lifetime earnings

Sauer, Robert M. - 2002

This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic: programming model of the optimal edueational financing dedsions and post-graduation career choices of law school graduates. The purpose of the paper is to measure the effect of short-term parental cash transfers, received during school, on in-school...

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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts

Tyler, John H. - 2002

This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...

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The distributional effects of direct college costs

Gemus, Jonathan - 2010

This paper examines the distributional impacts of direct college costs - that is, whether the response of educational decisions to college costs varies by student characteristics. The primary obstacle in estimating these effects is the endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I...

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Efficient electricity portfolios for the United States and Switzerland: An investor view

Krey, Boris; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of …, and Solar in the case of Switzerland, a country without domestic supplies of fossil fuels. Since shocks in generation … costs are found to be correlated, Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) is used to filter out the systematic …

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