Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap
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- Anne C. Gielen & Jessica Holmes & Caitlin Myers, 2013. "Testosterone and the gender wage gap," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 1301, Middlebury College, Department of Economics.
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twins; gender wage gap; testosterone;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2013-09-06 (Demographic Economics)
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