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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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engineering and computer science, which was partly counteracted by a negative effect for math and physics. …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...
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is completely free of gender-based norms. Salaries are assigned through a points system that considers training level … the gender-related gaps existing in other, more arbitrary private work environments. In this article, we present the … unadjusted gender pay gap of 0.12 and adjusted or unexplained gaps of 0.07-0.09 obtained through a Mincer earnings regression and …
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endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries’ general level of gender (in …
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endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries' general level of gender (in …
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find substantial cross-country variation for job preferences, with larger effects in countries with larger gender gaps …. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career …. However, in countries with negligible gender gaps, role models do not seem to have this equalizing function. …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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