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We investigate the link between subject-related gender stereotypes and gender discrimination, and its consequences for … experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination works in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e.g. math, philosophy … between students recruited for research careers in science and humanities majors. We identify discrimination from systematic …
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) as a natural experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination goes in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e … discrimination by systematic differences in students' scores between oral tests (non-blind toward gender) and anonymous written tests … mechanisms likely to drive this positive discrimination toward the minority gender are also discussed. …
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experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination goes in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e.g. math, philosophy … between science and humanities majors. We identify discrimination by systematic differences in students' scores between oral … each subject and for her overall ability at oral exams. The mechanisms likely to drive this positive discrimination toward …
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-confidence and women’s fear of discrimination: the lower tendency to enter competition is especially relevant for women in the lower …
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-confidence and women's fear of discrimination: the lower tendency to enter competition is especially relevant for women in the lower …
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This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Analyzing university faculty and graduate students data for ten of the top U.S. economics departments between 1987 and 2007, we find persistent differences in the gender compositions of both faculty and graduate students across departments. There is a positive correlation between the share of...
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difference in promotions across the genders, which is difficult to reconcile with either discrimination or a poorer performance …
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difference in promotions across the genders, which is difficult to reconcile with either discrimination or a poorer performance …
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This paper presents an overview of gender differences in education outcomes in OECD countries. A rich set of indicators describes the improvement of educational attainment among women over the past decades, and various dimensions of male under-performance in education. Possible explanatory...
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