Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Economic Studies
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0034-6527
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2009.00601.x