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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Children and the remaining gender gaps in the labor market
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2020
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
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Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market
Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2021
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315262
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Can women have children and a career? : IV evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2018
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among … treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects on earnings … are: ( i) negative, large and long lasting; ( ii) driven by fertility effects on hourly earnings and not so much on labor …
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Why inter-caste inequality in educational attainment still persists? : wealth and caste discrimination matters
Thorat, Sukhadeo K.; Khan, Khalid - In: The Indian economic journal 71 (2023) 1, pp. 256-275
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Affirmative action and human capital investment : theory and evidence from a randomized field experiment
Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; Price, Joseph - 2015 - Current version: September 2015
Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created by Affirmative Action (AA) in college admissions. These policies affect mechanisms for rank-order allocation of college seats, and alter the relative competition between blacks...
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Affirmative action, shifting competition, and human capital accumulation : a comparative static analysis of investment contests
Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; Price, Joseph - 2020 - This version: June 2020
We develop a model in which many heterogeneous agents invest in human capital as they compete for better college admission slots or employment opportunities. The model provides theoretical predictions about how affirmative action or preferential treatment policies change the distribution of...
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals' formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350520
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353585
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Levelling the Playing Field : 200 Years of Affirmative Action and Human Capital Accumulation in China
Cao, Siwei; Zhao, Kui - 2021
There is a long held but untested belief that affirmative action will level the playing field and eventually be unnecessary. We exploit academic institutional changes in the history of China to provide direct evidence. We show that a 200-year place-based quota policy successfully raised academic...
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