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The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
The American Economic Review, 2023 Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon ...
Zoe Cullen, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
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Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Using Danish administrative data, we study the impacts of children on gender inequality in the labor market. The arrival of children creates a long-run gender gap in earnings of around 20 percent driven by hours worked, participation, and wage rates.
H. Kleven, Camille Landais, J. Søgaard
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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
American Economic Review: Insights, 2017 We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility ...
David H. Autor +4 more
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Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university.
C. Porter, Danila Serra
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Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 We evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction, and marriage.
O. Bandiera +6 more
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children
David H. Autor +4 more
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The American Economic ReviewI examine whether changing the form of disbursement of a microfinance loan enables female microfinance borrowers to overcome intra-household sharing pressure and grow their businesses.
E. Riley
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The American Economic Review, 2019 We conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns.
P. Bordalo +3 more
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From Blue to Steel-Collar Jobs: The Decline in Employment Gaps?
Social Science Research NetworkI investigate how the introduction of industrial robots is shaping the demographic composition of the US labor force between 1993 and 2014. I find that robots decreased employment of men and women by 3.7 and 1.6 percentage points, contributing to the ...
Benjamin Lerch
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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #Econtwitter
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. We created 80 bot accounts that claim to be PhD students differing in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and ...
Nicolás Ajzenman +2 more
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