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Girls, girls, girls: gender composition and female school choice

Schneeweis, Nicole; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009

Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re-luctance to choose technical occupations … the classroom and unequal treatment by teachers. In this paper, we identify the causal impact of gender composition in … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …

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A dynamic theory of fidelity networks with an application to the spread of HIV/AIDS

Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - 2009

We study the dynamic stability of fidelity networks, which are networks that form in a mating economy of agents of two types (say men and women), where each agent desires direct links with opposite type agents, while engaging in multiple partnerships is considered an act of infidelity....

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Blind dates: Quasi-experimental evidence on discrimination

Edin, Per-Anders; Lagerström, Jonas - 2006

the fact that individuals can choose not to reveal their name and gender to potential employers. Our main finding is that …

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Gender, wages and social security in China's industrial sector

Rickne, Johanna - 2010

-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of …

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Abortion and human capital accumulation: A contribution to the understanding of the gender gap in education

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008

their female offspring and helps to reduce the gender gap in education, as consistent with the evidence. …

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Testing for discrimination against lesbians of different marital status: A field experiment

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2013

In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a heterosexual single, a married heterosexual, a single...

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Does sex-selective abortion improve girls' well-being? Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analía - 2010

The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...

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When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

Egan, Mark L.; Matvos, Gregor; Seru, Amit - 2017

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The early impact of COVID-19 on job losses among Black women in the United States

Holder, Michelle; Jones, Janelle; Masterson, Thomas - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...

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CEO overconfidence and dividend policy

Deshmukh, Sanjay; Goel, Anand M.; Howe, Keith M. - 2009

We develop a model of the effect of CEO overconfidence on dividend policy and empirically examine many of its predictions. Consistent with our main prediction, we find that the level of dividend payout is lower in firms managed by overconfident CEOs. We document that this reduction in dividends...

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