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The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap (2024)
Journal Article
Getik, D., & Meier, A. N. (in press). The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20230251

We study the impact of the early gender environment on inequality in the labor market. To this end, we link primary school data to occupations and earnings. We find that women exposed to more girls at critical ages earn more later on: A 10% increase... Read More about The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap.

The inelastic demand for affirmative action (2024)
Journal Article
Getik, D., Islam, M., & Samahita, M. (2024). The inelastic demand for affirmative action. European Economic Review, 170, Article 104862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104862

We study the role of financial incentives in driving support for affirmative action (AA) in a series of online experiments. Participants act as employers deciding whether to use AA in hiring. We implement three treatments to disenta... Read More about The inelastic demand for affirmative action.

Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples (2024)
Journal Article
Getik, D. (2024). Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples. The Economic Journal, 134(664), 3291-3305. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae071

The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing globally. In this paper, I examine how this dynamic affects mental health. Using data on the 2001 marital cohort in Sweden, I show that while mental health is positively associat... Read More about Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples.

Peer gender and mental health (2022)
Journal Article
Getik, D., & Meier, A. N. (2022). Peer gender and mental health. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, 643-659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.03.014

Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature—the gender composition in compulsory-school—affects mental health. W... Read More about Peer gender and mental health.