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The gender gap in competitive chess across countries: Commanding queens in command economies
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In this paper, a cross-country panel was constructed to explore the determinants of the gender gap in competitive chess across countries by controlling for main economic development indicators and several measures of gender equality.About:
This article is published in Journal of Comparative Economics.The article was published on 2021-06-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Planned economy & Socialist mode of production.read more
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Political regimes and the family: How sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany
TL;DR: For example, the authors investigated whether political regimes can shape attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the labor market, and found no evidence for a convergence process in gender attitudes.
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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that women have a much higher average educational level than men in Mongolia, and that the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20.
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Chess Girls Don’t Cry: Gender Composition of Games and Effort in Competitions among the Super-Elite
TL;DR: In this article , the authors show that male players are substantially quicker to quit when dominated by a female than by a male, while female players differ little as a function of the gender of opponents.
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Recurring Errors in Studies of Gender Differences in Variability
Theodore P. Hill,Rosalind Arden +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors pointed out that several basic statistical, inferential, and logical errors are being propagated in studies on the controversial topic of gender differences in variability, in part because of its potential implications for the issue of under- and over-representation of various subpopulations of our society, with respect to different traits.
AI, Ageing and Brain-Work Productivity: Technological Change in Professional Japanese Chess
Eiji Yamamura,Ryohei Hayashi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how and the extent to which the emergence of technological changes influenced the ageing and innate ability of players' winning probability using Japanese professional chess (Shogi) players' records.
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Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations.
Manuel Arellano,Stephen Bond +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator optimally exploits all the linear moment restrictions that follow from the assumption of no serial correlation in the errors, in an equation which contains individual effects, lagged dependent variables and no strictly exogenous variables.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes.
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A Threat in the Air How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance
TL;DR: Research shows that this threat dramatically depresses the standardized test performance of women and African Americans who are in the academic vanguard of their groups, that it causes disidentification with school, and that practices that reduce this threat can reduce these negative effects.