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Objective. We extend the scope of the often-asked question 'who talks more-men or women?' by analyzing gender differences in talking via electronic communication. We do this by conducting a controlled experiment to elicit email communications and personal characteristics from a sample of college students. Methods. integration of the disparate fields of communications, education, women's studies, and economics guides our approach, which uses multivariate regression to explain word counts from our electronic survey. Results. We find a positive and significant effect of being female on number of words used, especially when communication is with a female professor, consistent with a female role model hypothesis. Conclusion. than men-sometimes. The results depend on the topic of conversation and to whom they are talking. Electronic communications may level the playing field, or even give females an advantage, in certain communication situations. Adapted from the source document.

An examination of whether the lower wages generally observed for undocumented as compared to legal workers are due primarily to their immigration status or to differences in other wage-related characteristics, using interview data from 499 Hispanic garment workers in Los Angeles, Calif. Controlling for human capital, personal, & job characteristics, findings provide no evidence of a wage differential based on immigration status. However, when the model is respecified to exclude job characteristics, evidence is found that an immigration status wage differential may exist. 2 Tables, 18 References. HA