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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …
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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
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Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
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associations cannot be interpreted as causal. This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of a life event - the gender … - 2020) I find that having a first-born daughter instead of son increases fathers' extraversion. The gender of the first …
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This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
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analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …
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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988233
analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040905
This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a …-born sibling's gender and the first sibling's personality traits is causal. We employ longitudinal data from a large British cohort …
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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