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- Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
- From the paper's abstract: "In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a previous illness. This difference disappears for workers age 45 or older. We interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. ... We find that higher absenteeism induced by the 28-day cycle explains 11.8 percent of the earnings gender differential."
- Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
- From the abstract of the cited paper: "First, the study presents both observational and experimental data inconsistent with the hypothesis that political conservatism is distinctively associated with closed-mindedness: conservatives did no better or worse than liberals on an objective measure of cognitive reflection; and more importantly, both demonstrated the same unconscious tendency to fit assessments of empirical evidence to their ideological predispositions. Second, the study suggests that this form of bias is not a consequence of overreliance on heuristic or intuitive forms of reasoning; on the contrary, subjects who scored highest in cognitive reflection were the most likely to display ideologically motivated cognition."
- Debatable: Is the Christian Church a 'Hate Group'?
- "On August 15, [2012,] 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins II walked into the Family Research Council (FRC) and shot the group's unarmed security guard in a downtown D.C. office. ... The next day, FRC president Tony Perkins accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of fostering the climate that allowed the crime to occur. Perkins says that while he holds Corkins solely responsible for the shooting, he believes the SPLC must also be held accountable for its 'reckless' labeling of the FRC as an anti-gay 'hate group' in 2010." An exploration of and arguments against the SPLC's argument's for classifying the Family Research Council as a hate group