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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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A Discrimination Report Card [PDF]
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We develop an empirical Bayes ranking procedure that assigns ordinal grades to noisy measurements, balancing the information content of the assigned grades against the expected frequency of ranking errors.
Patrick M. Kline +2 more
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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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Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce
American Economic Review: Insights, 2020 This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades.
Marie Hyland +2 more
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The American Economic Review, 2021 We measure the effects of firm policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. Non-Whites are less likely to be hired by high-wage firms, explaining about 20 percent of the racial wage gap for both genders.
F. Gérard +3 more
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Gender, Performance, and Promotion in the Labor Market for Commercial Bankers
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Using data from the US syndicated loan market, we find women to be underrepresented among senior commercial bankers. This gap persists due to unequal promotion rates for men and women at the same institution in the same year, and cannot be explained by ...
M. Ceccarelli +2 more
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The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence
The American Economic Review, 2017 We model the dynamics of discrimination and show how its evolution can identify the underlying source. We test these theoretical predictions in a field experiment on a large online platform where users post content that is evaluated by other users on the
J. Bohren, A. Imas, Michael Rosenberg
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What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
Social Science Research Network, 2021 When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of callbacks to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 61 (146 ...
P. Kuhn, Kailing Shen
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Economics of Education Review, 2023 The apprenticeship market is the earliest possible entry point into the workforce in developed economies. Since early labor market shocks are likely magnified throughout professional life, avoiding mismatches between talent and occupations – for example ...
Ana Fernandes, M. Huber, Camila Plaza
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Social Science Research Network, 2021 Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence through the threat of a retaliatory firing.
Gordon Dahl, Matthew Knepper
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