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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

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Flujos de trabajadores en el mercado laboral colombiano, determinantes de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres, y futuro laboral esperado

López Castaño, Hugo; Lasso Valderrama, Francisco - 2015

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The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown

Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2021

This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the division of labour among parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers' paid work took a larger hit than that of fathers, and...

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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market

Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...

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The effect of the pandemic on the transition to tertiary education in Chile : a focus on students with disabilities

Contreras, M. Ignacia; Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez … - 2023

Using a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transition to tertiary education for students with disabilities in Chile. Enrollment rates in primary and secondary education in Chile differ by less than 2 percentage points for students with or without...

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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance

Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women

Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023

This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...

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Does gender and sexual diversity lead to greater conflict in the school?

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; … - 2022

Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered stereotypes. This may translate into greater levels of conflict in s ociety. Using data from 95 middle and high schools in Uruguay, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the...

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Gender differences in output quality and quantity under competition and time constraints: evidence from a pilot study

Shurchkov, Olga - 2009 - Current version: February 2009

to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype … threat. explains the inability of women to improve performance under competition. We propose an alternative explanation for … gender inequality: namely, that women and men respond differently to time pressure. With reduced time pressure, competition …

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