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[labor_markets]

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Economics (general)Observational Study
Demographic Gender Premium in Unskilled Agricultural Labor
Male agricultural workers earn a statistically significant 31.0% higher log daily wage than female workers ($\beta = 0.310, t = 9.93$), controlling for age, education, rainfall shocks, soil types, and village infrastructure.
Labour & employmentRCT
Social Network Expansion Mechanism
Experimentally induced short-term work experience increases the likelihood of hearing about a job opportunity through contacts met during the intervention by 22.2 percentage points (p < 0.05) [19, 21]. It increases the standardized social network index by 0.306 standard deviations (p < 0.10) [19, 21].