| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP15728
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| DP15728 Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice |
| Melanie Wasserman; Yana Gallen
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| 发表日期 | 2021-01-27
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| 出版年 | 2021
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional receives a message from a male or a female student. We focus the experimental design and analysis on two career attributes that prior research has shown to differentially affect the labor market choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask broadly for information about a career, we find that female students receive substantially more information on work/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work/life balance. In contrast, professionals mention workplace culture to male and female students at similar rates. After the study, female students are more dissuaded from their preferred career path than male students, and this difference is in part explained by professionals’ greater emphasis on work/life balance when responding to female students. Finally, we elicit students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students contacted their most preferred professionals. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Career information
Gender
Discrimination
Correspondence study
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15728
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544734
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Melanie Wasserman,Yana Gallen. DP15728 Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice. 2021.
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