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Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique data set matching high-quality administrative records with survey data, this study explores trends in these differentials by lifetime earnings for the 1983 to 2003 period. The...
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To analyze the effect of gender on learning outcome in economics classes, seven hundred and forty-four principles of … reveals that gender is a significant factor contributing to learning success as measured by grades. Contrary to past empirical … students, indicating a changing gender pattern …
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The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender … sent out, varying only in gender, name and surname, and place of residence. The results show no significant differences in …
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The “Varieties of Capitalism” (VoC) perspective is innovative and challenging for the comparative study of gender … theory is in principle gender-neutral, it is in fact implicitly predicated on a man's world. A key proposition of the model … a major dimension of gender stratification. The VoC perspective is more valuable in explaining differences in women …
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illuminate the intersection of gender, class, and family in terms of public discourses on men and equality, differences in living …; Section three is the empirical part of the article where we outline the specific characteristics of the intersection of gender … family positions. Third, we explain the specific characteristics of a Danish gender profile with an extreme polarization …
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Can communal heterogeneity explain persistent educational inequities in developing countries? The paper uses a novel data-set from rural Pakistan that explicitly recognizes the geographic structure of villages and the social makeup of constituent hamlets to show that demand for schooling is...
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investment decisions. Male CEOs allocate more investment capital to male than female division managers. This gender gap is driven … the mother. The gender gap also increases for CEOs who attended all-male high schools and grew up in neighborhoods with … greater gender inequality. The effect of gender on capital budgeting introduces frictions and erodes investment efficiency …
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The current literature discussing the federal tax laws' gender bias ignores all racial differences among women. Even … demonstrates how the literature's gender essentialism masks the bias in the federal tax laws based upon race, class, and gender …
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