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larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …
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larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …
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choices using the example of child care - a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …
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having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men …’s STEM participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers earn less …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …
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There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is … evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there … competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies, exploiting close elections between men and women to isolate the …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894094
I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their …
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