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Research Briefs·Apr 18, 2024

Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job? The Effects of Income on Crime

Jens Ludwig and Kevin Schnepel
Policies that reduce economic desperation reduce property crime (and hence overall crime rates) but have little effect on violent crime.
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Research Briefs·Apr 4, 2023

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs through Female Mentors

Frank Germann, Stephen J. Anderson, Pradeep Chintagunta, and Naufel Vilcassim
Female entrepreneurs ran more successful firms after receiving mentorship from women, compared to a control group that received no mentorship...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Research Briefs·Mar 20, 2023

How Are Gender Norms Perceived?

Leonardo Bursztyn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, Alessandra Voena, and David Yanagizawa-Drott
A new survey across 60 countries shows that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive: In less gender-equal countries, people underestimate...
Research Briefs·Feb 23, 2023

Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales

Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Matthew Pecenco, and Edward Rubin
The assignment of a female-sounding name to tele-agents leads to 50 percent fewer purchases; customers also lag in responding, are...
Topics: Employment & Wages
Research Briefs·Jun 15, 2022

Does Information Affect Homophily?

Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman
In their search for mentors, female students use gender as a guide when they have no information about mentor quality;...
Topics: Employment & Wages
Insight·Apr 14, 2022

Doing Business Far from Home: Multinational Firms and Labor Market Outcomes in Saudi Arabia

Alessandra González and Xianglong Kong
Foreign firms tend to offer higher wages and hire a larger share of Saudi workers, but they are not more...
Topics: Employment & Wages
Insight·Apr 14, 2022

Mentorship and Role Modeling, In and Out of the House: Evidence from High School Girls in Saudi Arabia

Alessandra González, Inmaculada Macias-Alonso, and Jennifer Peck
Formal mentoring increases professional aspirations among female high school students; these effects are magnified when students have fathers and working...
Topics: Employment & Wages
Insight·Apr 11, 2022

Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives For Spending on Children

Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Seema Jayachandran
In contrast to mothers, fathers are less willing to pay for their daughters’ human capital than their sons’, and fathers...
Topics: Economic Mobility & Poverty
Research Briefs·Feb 18, 2021

Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice

Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman
When students seek information from business professionals about careers, female students receive substantially more information on work/life balance relative to...
Topics: Employment & Wages