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Gender Homophily in Referral Networks : Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap
Zeltzer, Dan - 2020
I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for referring … driven by physicians' decisions rather than by endogenous sorting of physicians or patients. Because most referring doctors …
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Gender homophily in referral networks : consequences for the medicare physician earnings gap
Zeltzer, Dan - 2017
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians … receive referrals. I show that biased referrals are predominantly driven by physicians' decisions rather than by endogenous … sorting of physicians or patients or by gender differences in the labor supply. As 75% of doctors are men, estimates suggest …
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Gender homophily in referral networks : consequences for the medicare physician earnings gap
Zeltzer, Dan - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 12 (2020) 2, pp. 169-197
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The old boy network : the impact of professional networks on remuneration in top executive jobs
Lalanne, Marie; Seabright, Paul - 2016
We investigate the impact of social networks on earnings using a dataset of over 20,000 senior executives of European and US firms. The size of an individual's network of influential former colleagues has a large positive association with current remuneration. An individual at the 75th...
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Boys and Girls Have Different Friends : Gender Differences in CEO Network and Wage Premiums
Sahni, Herman - 2018
By taking advantage of a new hand-collected dataset on CEO educational networks between 1992 and 2013, this paper studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that is, have extremely large networks). Second, while...
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Hukou and Guanxi : How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China
Zhuge, Liqun; Lang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Hukou, China's household registration system, affects access to public services and signals the strength of a person's local social network, guanxi. We use a collective model and data on household consumption and spouses' hukou status to show that hukou plays a crucial role in determining...
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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior
Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2013
We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors place and time of...
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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior
Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2013
We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners' (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors' place and time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764820
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Gender and Connections among Wall Street Analysts
Fang, Lily H. - 2018
We examine how alumni ties with corporate boards differentially affect male and female analysts' job performance and career outcomes. Connections improve analysts' forecasting accuracy and recommendation impact, but the effect is two to three times as large for men as for women. Connections also...
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Gender & collaboration
Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; Prummer, Anja - 2018
The fraction of women in economics has grown significantly over the last forty years. In spite of this, the differences in research output between men and women are large and persistent. These output differences are related to differences in the co-authorship networks of men and women: women...
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