Do professors really perpetuate the gender gap in science? Evidence from a natural experiment in a French higher education institution
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- Thomas Breda & Son Thierry Ly, 2012. "Do professors really perpetuate the gender gap in science? Evidence from a natural experiment in a French higher education institution," PSE Working Papers halshs-00677438, HAL.
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Discrimination; Gender Stereotypes; Natural Experiment; Sex and Science;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2012-05-29 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2012-05-29 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-05-29 (Labour Economics)
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