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In this paper, we show that gender gaps in performance observed in high-stakes exams, relative to low-stakes exams, are partially shaped by the context of exam preparation. We examine the role of …
Only a small fraction of inventors are women. Using Finnish administrative data linked to patent records, I show that educational and occupational sorting explain roughly 54% of the gender gap in …
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We study how labeling of neighborhoods affects the performance and sorting of young residents at the junction of enrolling in high school. Exploiting the release of a much publicized official …
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