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Women in STEM : A Gender Gap to Innovation

Beede, David N. - 2014

Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America's innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the...

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A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering

Benson, Alan - 2014

I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...

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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Hernaes, Oeystein - 2016

We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...

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Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions : A Research Review

Buvinic, Mayra - 2017

A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender … high quality business management and jobs skills training, and stipends and other incentives in these training programs … taking and confidence in business decisions, and may augment an otherwise negligible impact of financial literacy training …

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Gender Differences in Politician Persistence

Wasserman, Melanie - 2019

Why are women underrepresented in politics? This paper documents gender differences in the career paths of novice politicians by studying the persistence of candidates after they win or lose elections. I track the political trajectories of over 11,000 candidates in local California elections and...

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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : An Analysis by Gender

Fraumeni, Barbara - 2019

This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...

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Preference for the Workplace, Investment in Human Capital, and Gender

Wiswall, Matthew - 2017

We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor-market human capital investments. This method robustly identifies preferences for various job attributes, free from omitted variable bias and free...

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Like Father, Like Daughter (Unless There is a Son) : Sibling Sex Composition and Women's Stem Major Choice in College

Oguzoglu, Umut - 2016

We investigate the potential role of fathers in females' decision to choose a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) major in college. The main innovation of our paper is to analyze how sibling sex composition affects the probability of being a STEM major in college for females...

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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 - 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 over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...

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Explaining Gender Differences in Confidence and Overconfidence in Math

Cho, Seo-Young - 2018

This paper investigates empirically how and why men and women are different in their confidence levels. Using the data of the PISA test in math, confidence is decomposed into two dimensions: confidence in correct math knowledge and overconfidence in over-claiming false knowledge. The findings...

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