Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf]

14 pointsposted 2 days ago
by pploug

3 Comments

pploug

2 days ago

"We find that women’s relative earnings and employment increase by 4.4% and 2.9% respectively following the birth of the manager’s first daughter. These effects are driven by an increase in managers’ propensity to replace male workers by hiring women with comparable education, hours worked, and earnings."

readthenotes1

a day ago

There are so many caveats in the selection that this seems largely irrelevant.