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Women comprise less than a quarter of full professors in STEM departments in United States universities, yet women … outnumber men at the assistant professor level, underscoring the imbalanced representation of women in the academic career … pipeline. In this paper, we present the results of a systematic review which explores the reasons why women are …
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This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. She considers the likelihood of a …
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During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market … with male sole earners who compete with women for jobs. We show that the theory's predictions for when protective …
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Since the late 1980s, the United States has witnessed a dramatic increase in average BMI levels and the proportion of individuals categorized as obese. Obesity is a major risk factor for a variety of illnesses, and an increase in obesity is, therefore, implicated in increased health-care costs...
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Current research argues that female politicians steer funding away from correction institutions toward other activities related to their policy preferences, such as health care, and that this diversion negatively affects the state spending on prisons. This paper shows that female politicians in...
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This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …
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-trafficking tools to address the sex trafficking of American Indian women and girls throughout the United States …
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prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … timing in women’s spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …
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prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344618
Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and candidate instrumental variables are likely imperfect. We use...
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