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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers
Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019
effect of "high-achievers" on male outcomes is markedly different: boys are unaffected by "high-achievers" of either gender. …
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Social Causation Versus Health Selection in the Life Course: Does Their Relative Importance Differ by Dimension of SES?
Hoffmann, Rasmus; Kröger, Hannes; Geyer, Siegfried - In: Social Indicators Research 141 (2019) 3, pp. 1341-1367
A person's socioeconomic status (SES) can affect health (social causation) and health can affect SES (health selection). The findings for each of these pathways may depend on how SES is measured. We study (1) whether social causation or health selection is more important for overall health...
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: Causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2024
We investigate the role played by the social environment in the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we find that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as earnings expectations. …
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The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations: Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882376
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: Causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2022
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197535
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices: Are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
that of fathers. In terms of gender differences, there is the evidence of a dependency burden in the occupational choice of …
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: Causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797251
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Social factors affecting women's susceptibility to HIV in India
Lall, Priya - 2014
India is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult identify as a high-risk population. This paper seeks to assess social...
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Determinants of general health status and specific diseases of elderly women and men: A longitudinal analysis for Western and Eastern Germany
Wegner, Christian; Luy, Marc - 2009
on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender … earlier presence of diseases and the health condition at follow-up. Gender differences in health outcomes are partly explained …
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The gender lifetime earnings gap: Exploring gendered pay from the life course perspective
Boll, Christina; Jahn, Malte; Lagemann, Andreas - 2017
Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …
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