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1 Seminar Worksheet: Working From Home Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer, "Gender gaps in performance: Evidence from young lawyers" ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ATTEMPTED BEFORE THE SEMINAR. You need to rea... d the following parts of this paper (+ the tables discussed below): pp. 1-25 + pp. 30-31. Read the Introduction.  What does the prior literature have to say about the gender wage gap? What explanations have been offered?  What is distinctive about the sector the authors study which allows them to make progress on this issue (i.e. the reasons for the existence of the gender gap)?  What kind of data will the authors use? What are the key outcomes the authors will study and the key explanatory variables?  Related to the above, the availability of these kinds of data allow the authors to tackle head on some key hypotheses put forward to explain the gender2 performance and wage / career progression gaps. Clearly lay out these hypotheses. Read section 2.  What are the two key performance measures in the legal profession? Explain the difference between these and how they will separately help explain wages and career progression for lawyers. Read section 3.  The key outcome and explanatory variables are laid out in Table 1. Make sure you can follow this table. What might explain the differences in number of children for the two groups? Read section 4.  What do we learn about gender performance gaps (Table 2)?3  [THIS MATERIAL RELATING TO TABLES 6, 9 AND 10 IS NOT EXAMINABLE – but it is still useful to read]: What is the role of gender discrimination (section 4.1 + Table 6)? Childrearing (section 4.2 + Table 9)? And career aspirations (section 4.3.1 + Table 10)  Write the conclusion in your own words. A caveat: This paper omits is the role of child care responsibilities. Although the authors have information on number of children (so they can compare performance of male and female lawyers with the equivalent number of children) they lack information on childcare responsibilities. One assumes that the female lawyers are likely much more involved in such activity than their male counterparts. (Indeed this is hinted at by the authors when they document the differential impact of young children on male versus female performance.) Relatedly, ‘aspirations’ at a younger age are also likely determined by (anticipated) child care duties. [Show More]

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