, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We …, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the …

one hand, and content and methodology of research on the other hand, cannot be separated easily. We use a unique example … to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … findings. -- rhetoric ; gender wage differential ; discrimination …

In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians …' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient … referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily …