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maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this …-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …
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maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this …-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …
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yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …
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comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … age composition of missing women disappear. …
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children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …
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children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …
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children. In contrast, `flow estimates’ suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …
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norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … across different birth cohorts of individuals who, during their crucial developmental-age, were exposed to one of the two …
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …
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