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possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter … ; race ; ethnicity ; birth place ; black ; welfare ; immigrant status …
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing … (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different … of owb gender equality, ignoring the importance of swb gender equality. We use the NIDS dataset, comparing 2008 and 2017 …
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possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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As a result of Title IX, there has been a large increase in participation of women in college sports, while men's participation has remained roughly constant. Using a standard contest success function, we analyze the resource allocation decision between women's and men's sports before and after...
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