CURRENT PROJECTS (SELECTION)

 

• Why women choose 'female' professions. Analysing mechanisms behind horizontal sex segregation with survey experiments.
   

• The influence of personality traits and job preferences on the gender pay gap in the early career.
  (with Barbara Zimmermann, University of Bern)

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• Unobserved effects in teacher's decisions - anticipation of parental support? An experimental analysis. (with Ulf Liebe, University of Warwick)

 

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

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• Combet, Benita; Oesch, Daniel (online first): The social-origin gap in university graduation by gender and immigrant status. A cohort analysis for Switzerland.
  Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. (equal contribution) (Article, Working Paper)

  • Media: NZZ
     

• Jakob, Martina; Combet, Benita (online first): Educational aspirations and decision-making in a context of poverty. A test of rational choice models in El Salvador.
  Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. (equal contribution) (Article, Working Paper, Stata scripts and output)
   

• Combet, Benita (2019): The institutional dimension of class-based educational decision-making: Evidence from regional variation in Switzerland.
  Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 48(4): 301–320. (Article, Working Paper, Appendix, Stata scripts and output)

  • Media: Tagesanzeiger
     

• Combet, Benita; Oesch, Daniel (2019): The gender wage gap opens long before motherhood. Panel evidence on early careers in Switzerland.
  European Sociological Review, 35(3): 332-345. (equal contribution) (Article, Working Paper, Appendix, Stata scripts and output)
  Runner-up for the ESR Best Article Prize 2020

  • Lay summary: Die Lohnungleichheit zwischen Männern und Frauen beginnt lange vor der Familiengründung / L'inégalité salariale entre hommes et femmes commence bien avant la fondation d'une famille. Social Change in Switzerland, Number 18, June 2019. (german version / french version)

  • Media: Tagesanzeiger, Der Bund, Le Temps, Swissinfo, La Liberté, Tribune de Genève, Le Nouvelliste, 24heures, RTN, Radio Lac, Reiso
     

• Berger, Joël; Combet, Benita (2017): Late School Tracking, Less Class Bias in Educational Decision-Making? The Uncertainty Reduction Mechanism and Its Experimental Test. European Sociological Review, 33(1): 124-136. (equal contribution) (Article, Working Paper)
  won the Best Student Paper Award by ISA RC 45, 2016 edition

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• Combet, Benita (2013): Zum Einfuss von primären und sekundären Effekten der sozialen Herkunft beim zweiten schulischen Übergang in der Schweiz.
  Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher Dekompositions- und Operationalisierungsmethoden.
  Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, 35(3): 447-471. (Article, Abstract in English)
   

• Jann, Ben; Combet, Benita (2012): Zur Entwicklung der intergenerationalen Mobilität in der Schweiz.
  Swiss Journal of Sociology, 38(2): 177-199. (Article, Abstract in English)