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Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen M.; Snowberg, Erik; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences, and different network layers. At the individual...

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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Leadership skills and wages

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...

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The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores

Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J.; Mullen, Kathleen J. - 2003

endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability … measured test scores are slightly larger for lower latent ability levels. We find that schooling increases the AFQT score on … by estimating the impact of schooling on measured test scores at various quantiles of the latent ability distribution. …

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Leisure inequality in the United States : 1965 - 2003

Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012

This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...

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Leisure Inequality in the United States : 1965-2003

Sevilla Sanz, Almudena - 2012

This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure,' 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...

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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap : evidence from immigrants in the United States

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021

This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the epidemiological approach. We merge data from the...

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Do Females Always Generate Small Bubbles? Experimental Evidence from U.S. and China

Wang, Jianxin - 2017

We report data from double-auction experiments in China and the U.S. using groups of exclusively females, exclusively males and mixed gender participants. We find that female groups in China generate price bubbles statistically identical to those produced by exclusively male groups in both China...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Retirement Knowledge Gaps in the United States

Blanco, Luisa R.; Hays, Ron D. - 2023

The Retirement Knowledge Scale (RKS) assesses three dimensions of financial planning for retirement: reflection about retirement plans, engagement with information on retirement preparedness, and evaluation of retirement preparedness. We provide preliminary evidence about the reliability and...

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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?

Price, Gregory N.; Viceisza, Angelino C. G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...

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