How can medicine close its gender pay gap?

The Gender Pay Gap

The Gender Pay Gap: Can Behavioral Economics Provide Useful Insights?

People are faced with numerous decisions every day. Whether we must choose our outfit for the day, which cell phone brand to buy, what college to attend, to buy a car or house insurance, or even when or to whom to get married, decisions are a permanent presence in our daily activities. Behavioral economics is a multi-disciplinary field of study investigating how people make judgments and decisi...

How Does Collective Bargaining Affect the Gender Pay Gap?

Elvira, Saporta / COLLECTIVE BARGAINING The authors study the effect of unionization on gender wage differentials for production workers in nine U.S. manufacturing industries. They find that the wage gap is significantly smaller in unionized establishments for six of the industries, even after controlling for occupation and establishment gender composition. But this union effect does not hold w...

Can Teams Help to Close the Gender Competition Gap

Previous research finds that significant gender differences occur when experimental subjects choose whether or not to enter a competition, even when performance levels are similar across genders. In this paper, we investigate the potential for competing in teams to reduce these differences. We first replicate earlier findings that men are more likely to compete than women when the competitions ...

How Can Bee Colony Algorithm Serve Medicine?

Healthcare professionals usually should make complex decisions with far reaching consequences and associated risks in health care fields. As it was demonstrated in other industries, the ability to drill down into pertinent data to explore knowledge behind the data can greatly facilitate superior, informed decisions to ensue the facts. Nature has always inspired researchers to develop models of ...