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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244271
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246474
In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males outperform females on the Swedish SAT by the same magnitude. We establish that GPAs capture different attributes and skills compared to SAT scores. Differences in motivation and...
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overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that …
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Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …
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Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …
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This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347136
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348529
. Maaser, Paetzel and Traub (Games and Economic Behavior, 2019) conducted an experiment to investigate the effect of such … nominal power differences in the classic Baron-Ferejohn model. This paper re-analyzes the data from that experiment, looking … at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in …
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