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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth...
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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457690
valuable for women's career advancement than for men's. On average, additional qualification signals increase male directors … networks matters for women's career advancement. We find that connections to male executives and executives who are members of … an old boys' club are more valuable for women than having access to all-female networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310480
How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors - their gender - affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459817
Forty years ago, a generation of American women embarked on careers they had never anticipated, knowing almost nothing … is raging about women's progress, what they can do, what they should do, what hinders them and what remedies to try. We … have excellent scholarship on many of these issues, but precious little on what women's careers actually look like in the …
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Purpose Despite more than 50 years of research into gender and work, the impact of women occupying managerial positions … identify and explore the perceptions of women who decided to choose their career path either in IT or HR positions to explore … conducted with women occupying either IT or HR managerial positions. The study included two datasets: (1) women representing …
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Women are underrepresented in economics. This underrepresentation concerns undergraduates, postgraduates, and tenured … fragmented empirical literature on women's underrepresentation in economics. The model is based on Akerlof's and Kranton's (2002 …) model of identity. The question of whether women's underrepresentation may be suboptimal and a cause for concern is also …
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offices where all supervisors are women, the wage gap in favor of men disappears and becomes 3.2% in favor of women due to a 7 …
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study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can …
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study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011684403