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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any … – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender … heterogeneity that we test by means of a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information on …
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We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We … findings indicate that the possibility of self-assessment influences rating behavior, potentially exacerbating gender … disparities and affecting gender equity. …
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This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions …. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence … more strongly to decreased monitoring, but no significant gender difference in the extent to which workers are influenced …
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This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions …. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence … more strongly to decreased monitoring, but no significant gender difference in the extent to which workers are influenced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348864
Using a field experiment eliciting the risk preferences of 490 9th and 11th grade students from a variety of school … considered by economists (gender, ethnicity, height, and parental education) we also evaluate cognitive (proxied by math literacy …
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-year field experiment with a top-10 undergraduate accounting program that randomized the gender composition of semester … resulting group gender compositions influence individuals' experiences and broader workplace dynamics. In this paper, we … investigate whether token women are disadvantaged compared to women on majority-women mixed-gender teams. We conducted a multi …
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that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …
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that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447791
Using Greek administrative data, we examine the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top … records, which positions them as role models. Both male and female students are influenced by the performance of a same-gender … positive effects from the presence of a same-gender role model. Specifically, female students improved their science test …
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