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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 investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether gender differences in peer effects - if any … - depend on work organization. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test in a real …-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information flows from peers to the worker and simultaneous …
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This paper examines gender peer effects on students' academic and noncognitive outcomes. We use a nationally …' gender influences student outcomes …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861442
We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether gender differences in peer effects - if any … - depend on work organization. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test in a real …-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information flows from peers to the worker and simultaneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919740
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … peer environment has lasting effects on occupational sorting and the gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920522
This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887940
IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …, a significant, but small gender achievement gap amounting to 10% of a country-level standard deviation is confirmed in …
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We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn...
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Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …
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