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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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gender stereotypes and desired leadership attributes in 1885 participants from 25 companies using a priopietary measure …Women are under-represented globally in leadership roles. One theory suggests that this imbalance is due to a mismatch … leadership and rated the degree to which each attribute was associated with men or women. Men were more strongly associated with …
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This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male versus female experts. Members of the public were asked for their opinions on topical issues and shown the opinion of either a male or a female economist, all professors at leading...
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The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end … provide an alternative explanation for the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions. …
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we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around …
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we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around …
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This study aims to measure the gender wage gap among millennial workers in Colombia and determine if there is a marked … ceiling, that is, if there is a larger gender wage gap among workers earning relatively high wages. The study data included a …–Blinder econometric methods of wage decomposition were used to calculate both raw and adjusted gender wage gaps. The latter results in …
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dilemma imposed by conflicting prescriptions about gender roles — between ambition (choosing a goal and going all-out for it …
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We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of … mechanisms that induce gender inequality in resource access. …
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