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作者：Wozniak, David; Harbaugh, William T.; Mayr, Ulrich
作者单位：Eastern Michigan University; University of Oregon
摘要：We use a within-subjects experiment with math and word tasks to show that relative performance feedback moves high-ability females toward more competitive forms of compensation, moves low-ability men toward less competitive forms, and eliminates gender differences in choices. We also examine females across the menstrual cycle and find that women in the high-hormone phase are more willing to compete than women in the low-hormone phase. There are no significant differences between choices after ...
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作者：Curto, Vilsa E.; Fryer, Roland G., Jr.
作者单位：Stanford University; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The SEED schools, which combine a No Excuses charter model with a 5-day-a-week boarding program, are America''s only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student''s environment is an effective strategy to increase achievement among the poor. Using admission lotteries, we show that attending a SEED school increases achievement by 0.211 st...
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作者：Engberg, John; Epple, Dennis; Imbrogno, Jason; Sieg, Holger; Zimmer, Ron
作者单位：RAND Corporation; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Pennsylvania; Vanderbilt University
摘要：We study the effectiveness of magnet programs in an urban district that ration excess demand by admission lotteries. Differential attrition arises since students who lose the lottery are more likely to pursue options outside the school district than students who win the lottery. When students leave the district, important outcome variables are often not observed. The treatment effects are not point-identified. We exploit known quantiles of the outcome distribution to construct informative boun...
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作者：Jepsen, Christopher; Troske, Kenneth; Coomes, Paul
作者单位：University College Dublin; University of Kentucky; University of Louisville
摘要：This article provides one of the first rigorous estimations of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimations of the returns to the more commonly studied associate''s degrees. Using administrative data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that control for differences among students in precollege earnings and educational aspirations. Associate''s degrees and diplomas have quarterly earnings returns of nearly $$2,400 for women and $$1,500 ...
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作者：Zivin, Joshua Graff; Neidell, Matthew
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University
摘要：We estimate the impacts of temperature on time allocation by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in temperature over time within counties. Temperature increases at the higher end of the distribution reduce hours worked in industries with high exposure to climate and reduce time allocated to outdoor leisure for the nonemployed, with this time reallocated to indoor leisure. At the lower end of the distribution, time allocated to labor is nonresponsive to temperature increases, but outdoor l...
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作者：Plug, Erik; Webbink, Dinand; Martin, Nick
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Queensland
摘要：This article examines whether gay and lesbian workers sort into tolerant occupations. With information on sexual orientation, prejudice, and occupational choice taken from Australian Twin Registers, we find that gays and lesbians shy away from prejudiced occupations. We show that our segregation results are largely driven by those gay and lesbian workers with disclosed identities and are robust to the inclusion of unobserved factors that are inherited and observed factors that strongly correla...
