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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa
Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...
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Forgotten Racial Equality : Implicit Bias, Decision-Making and Misremembering
Levinson, Justin D. - 2010
This Article argues that judges and jurors unknowingly propagate racism through their legal decisions because they misremember case facts in implicitly biased ways. Such an argument bridges discourse in implicit social cognition, memory studies, and legal decision-making. Social cognition...
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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We...
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Distributional differences and the Native American gender wage gap
Burnette, Jeffrey; Zhang, Weiwei - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/46, pp. 1-18
We use the Theil index and data from the 2012-2016, American Community Survey 5-Year Sample to document and analyze gender wage inequality for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women across single, multiracial and ethnic identity groups. Mean differences in hourly wages by gender...
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Correcting racial injustice : forensic DNA technology and the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted
D'Este, Rocco; Yuchtman, Noam - 2023
We study the effects of laws streamlining access to post-conviction forensic DNA technology ("DNA laws"). We present a conceptual framework in which DNA laws' effects differ by race due to unequal access to non-DNA exoneration technologies. Consistent with the framework's predictions, we find...
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Desigualdade Racial e de Gênero nas Eleições Municipais no Brasil (Racial and Gender Inequality in Municipal Elections in Brazil)
Firpo, Sergio; França, Michael; Portella, Alysson; … - 2022
This work contributes to the literature that estimates racial and gender imbalances in Brazilian municipal political representation. For this, we use data from the 2016 and 2020 mayoral and councilor elections in order to investigate the extent to which black women, black men and white women are...
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Reexamining the link between gender and corruption : the role of social institutions
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Ziegler, Maria - 2010 - This version: March 3, 2010
In this paper we reexamine the link between gender inequality and corruption. We review the literature on the … relationship between representation of women in economic and political life, democracy and corruption, and bring in a new … gender inequality. Using a sample of developing countries we regress corruption on the representation of women, democracy and …
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Fighting gender inequality in Sweden
André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several...
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The early impact of COVID-19 on job losses among Black women in the United States
Holder, Michelle; Jones, Janelle; Masterson, Thomas - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...
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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
Sarnikar, Supriya - 2007
The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced equally. Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's records, we examine...
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