CAREER: Understanding How Markets Work in Enough Detail So We Can Fix Them When They're Broken

该职业奖资助了使用经济学理论和实证方法来回答两个研究问题的研究。第一组项目考察了性别差异和劳动力市场。PI调查劳动力市场是如何运作的，以及它们对女性和男性的作用是否不同。PI建立并分析了一个新的劳动力市场数学模型，该模型关注的是当雇主与员工“匹配”时，就会有人被录用的想法。她使用这个模型来研究一些雇主采用的做法，以应对限制雇主审查大量个人工作申请和申请者的能力的现实世界因素。她还使用这个模型来衡量实施具体的平权行动措施可能带来的效率收益。她还进行了经济实验，以衡量在常见课堂和工作任务上表现的性别差异的大小和来源。她之前的研究表明，竞争态度上的性别差异可能是造成这些差异的部分原因。她的职业研究包括超越这些初步结果，考虑性别是否会影响工作任务的选择。她的研究还寻找了为什么我们观察到性别自信差异的潜在原因，即使男性和女性都收到了关于任务表现的充分反馈。职业活动的教育部分包括与各种学生和专业组织合作，改善STEM领域的求职过程。这项研究将帮助我们了解什么样的机构和做法可以提高男性和女性在课堂环境和求职中的表现。

This CAREER award funds research that uses economic theory and empirical methods to answer two research questions.The first set of projects examine gender differences and labor markets. The PI examines how labor markets work and whether they work differently for women and men. The PI builds and analyzes a new mathematical model of labor markets that focuses on the idea that someone is hired into a job when an employer 'matches' with an employee. She uses this model to study practices that are adopted by some employers to deal with real world factors that limit the employer's ability to review a large number of individual job applications and applicants. She also uses this model to gauge the possible efficiency gains from implementing specific affirmative action measures.She also conducts economic experiments to measure the size and sources of gender differences in performance on common classroom and job tasks. Her previous research suggests that gender differences in competitive attitudes may be part of the reason for these differences. Her CAREER research includes going beyond these preliminary results to consider whether gender affects the choice of work tasks. Her research also looks for underlying reasons why we observe gender differences in confidence even when both men and women receive ample feedback on task performance.The educational component of the CAREER activities includes working with a wide variety of students and professional organizations to improve the job search process in STEM fields.This research will help us to understand what kinds of institutions and practices can enhance how both men and women perform in classroom settings and in employment searches.