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Nudging Girls into STEM Works in High School, But Does the Effect Last?

May 10, 2023 admin college, education, gender, inequality, STEM

What is the effect of strengthening the science curriculum in secondary school on the probability that boys and girls graduate

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Discrimination against Older Workers in Restaurant Hiring

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 admin aging, inequality, work

Age discrimination in hiring older workers—if it exists—is a serious policy problem. An aging population requires more people working until

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relationship between propensity to follow in parent career and regulation for various careers
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If You Want Intergenerational Mobility, Regulation Matters

November 23, 2021 admin careers, inequality, regulation

It is not uncommon that children follow the same career as their parents. But why? This might be attributed to

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How to Increase Workplace Diversity? Start by Asking for Diverse Candidates

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 admin diversity, employment, inequality, work

Many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity among their employees, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence

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When Zimbabwe dismantled barriers to education, transition to secondary school tripled.
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Ending Education Apartheid in Zimbabwe Increased Education for Adolescents—And Their Children

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 admin children, education, inequality, race

UNESCO reports that 200 million adolescents were out of school in 2016. This missed opportunity is especially costly because secondary

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What Happens when Students Must Meet Academic Standards to Receive Need-Based Aid?

August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 admin college, education, financial aid, inequality

College students who receive need-based financial aid typically must meet minimum academic standards to stay eligible, and it’s not well

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When There Aren’t Jobs Close to Home—Do Low-Wage Employers Discriminate Based on Commute Distance?

May 28, 2019June 4, 2019 admin employment, inequality, labor, poverty

Everything else equal, employers might respond differently to a person based on where they live, avoiding people from a neighborhood

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Jobs for Young, Attractive Women and Older Male Managers? The “Age Twist” in Employers’ Gender Requests

May 24, 2019 admin age, employment, gender, inequality, labor

Thousands of articles have been written on gender differentials in labor markets, but almost none have studied employers’ explicit requests

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State Affirmative Action Bans in Higher Ed—What We Know

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 admin education, inequality

New from Brookings, “Why might states ban affirmative action?” by Dominique J. Baker, Assistant Professor of Education Policy at Southern

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Unintended Consequences—How Targeting Schools for Special Benefits in France Can Do More Harm Than Good

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 admin children, education, inequality, low-income students, parenting, school accountability

Compensatory education policies—policies aimed at offsetting educational inequalities between socially and academically disadvantaged children and more advantaged students—are widely used

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