Benita Combet
Biographic Data
| ID | 315152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benita Combet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benita |
| FAMILY NAME | Combet |
| SIGNATURE | COMBET B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3711-4215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Skill requirements versus workplace characteristics
What role do skill requirements play in gendered occupational preferences? Previous research has emphasized workplace characteristics such as salaries and family-friendly work hours. Less attention has been paid to skill requirements, even though they are an important part of job descriptions and serve as reference points for individuals' assessment of their suitability for occupations. Using a choice experiment among Swiss adolescents who are in…
Women's aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice
This article examines whether gender differences in preferences for field of study characteristics can explain gendered major choice. Specifically, this study focuses on a broad range of subject characteristics that are often simultaneously present: systemizing skills required (math intensity, reasoning style, affinity for technical work tasks), future job characteristics corresponding with the male breadwinner model (materialism, work-family com…
Educational aspirations and decision-making in a context of poverty. A test of rational choice models in El Salvador
The Institutional Dimension of Class-based Educational Decision-making
This article examines to what extent the specific institutional arrangement of an education system moderates the influence of social background on students’ track allocation, and whether this happens via primary or secondary effects of social origin. I tackle the problem of omitted-variable bias by analyzing subnational education systems in Switzerland, a country with a variety of cantonal school systems but otherwise homogeneous institutions. Th…
The Gender Wage Gap Opens Long before Motherhood. Panel Evidence on Early Careers in Switzerland
According to a popular argument in economics, the gender wage gap persists not because of employer discrimination against women, but because of the differential investment of fathers and mothers into paid work and the household. We test this argument by comparing the evolution of wages between men and women before the onset of family formation and gendered household specialization. We use a cohort study of young adults for Switzerland (TREE 2000–…
Zum Einfluss von primären und sekundären Effekten der sozialen Herkunft beim zweiten schulischen Übergang in der Schweiz. Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher Dekompositions- und Operationalisierungsmethod…
Aufgrund des meritokratischen Prinzips sollte die soziale Herkunft idealerweise keinen Einfluss auf den Erwerb höherer Bildung ausüben. Diverse Studien zeigen jedoch, dass in der Schweiz ein starker Zusammenhang zwischen der sozialen Herkunftsschicht und dem erreichten Bildungsabschluss besteht. In diesem Artikel wird untersucht, wie sich die soziale Herkunft auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit, das Gymnasium nach Ende der obligatorischen Schulzeit zu bes…
Late School Tracking, Less Class Bias in Educational Decision-Making? The Uncertainty Reduction Mechanism and Its Experimental Testing
A long-standing hypothesis in the sociology of education is that the timing of ability tracking impacts the inequality of educational opportunity. While earlier studies mainly focused on how early tracking impacts the primary effect of social origin (systematic performance differences due to social background), the impact of early tracking on the secondary effect of social origin (class-specific educational decision-making) has been neglected. Re…
Zur Entwicklung der intergenerationalen Mobilität in der Schweiz
Fur Gesellschaften, in denen sich die Allokation sozialer Positionen nach meritokratischen Kriterien gestaltet, hat das Prinzip der Chancengleichheit konstituierenden Charakter. Die grundlegende Vorstellung ist, dass die gesellschaftliche Position, die ein Individuum erreichen kann, nur von der eigenen Leistung abhangt, nicht jedoch von so genannt askriptiven Merkmalen wie zum Beispiel der sozialen Herkunft oder dem Geschlecht. Gesellschaften, in…
The Gender Wage Gap Opens Long before Motherhood. Panel Evidence on Early Careers in Switzerland
According to a popular argument in economics, the gender wage gap persists not because of employer discrimination against women, but because of the differential investment of fathers and mothers into paid work and the household. We test this argument by comparing the evolution of wages between men and women before the onset of family formation and gendered household specialization. We use a cohort study of young adults for Switzerland (TREE 2000–…
The Institutional Dimension of Class-based Educational Decision-making
This article examines to what extent the specific institutional arrangement of an education system moderates the influence of social background on students’ track allocation, and whether this happens via primary or secondary effects of social origin. I tackle the problem of omitted-variable bias by analyzing subnational education systems in Switzerland, a country with a variety of cantonal school systems but otherwise homogeneous institutions. Th…
Zur Entwicklung der intergenerationalen Mobilität in der Schweiz
Fur Gesellschaften, in denen sich die Allokation sozialer Positionen nach meritokratischen Kriterien gestaltet, hat das Prinzip der Chancengleichheit konstituierenden Charakter. Die grundlegende Vorstellung ist, dass die gesellschaftliche Position, die ein Individuum erreichen kann, nur von der eigenen Leistung abhangt, nicht jedoch von so genannt askriptiven Merkmalen wie zum Beispiel der sozialen Herkunft oder dem Geschlecht. Gesellschaften, in…
Women's aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice
This article examines whether gender differences in preferences for field of study characteristics can explain gendered major choice. Specifically, this study focuses on a broad range of subject characteristics that are often simultaneously present: systemizing skills required (math intensity, reasoning style, affinity for technical work tasks), future job characteristics corresponding with the male breadwinner model (materialism, work-family com…
Late School Tracking, Less Class Bias in Educational Decision-Making? The Uncertainty Reduction Mechanism and Its Experimental Testing
A long-standing hypothesis in the sociology of education is that the timing of ability tracking impacts the inequality of educational opportunity. While earlier studies mainly focused on how early tracking impacts the primary effect of social origin (systematic performance differences due to social background), the impact of early tracking on the secondary effect of social origin (class-specific educational decision-making) has been neglected. Re…
Zum Einfluss von primären und sekundären Effekten der sozialen Herkunft beim zweiten schulischen Übergang in der Schweiz. Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher Dekompositions- und Operationalisierungsmethod…
Aufgrund des meritokratischen Prinzips sollte die soziale Herkunft idealerweise keinen Einfluss auf den Erwerb höherer Bildung ausüben. Diverse Studien zeigen jedoch, dass in der Schweiz ein starker Zusammenhang zwischen der sozialen Herkunftsschicht und dem erreichten Bildungsabschluss besteht. In diesem Artikel wird untersucht, wie sich die soziale Herkunft auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit, das Gymnasium nach Ende der obligatorischen Schulzeit zu bes…
The Institutional Dimension of Class-based Educational Decision-making
This article examines to what extent the specific institutional arrangement of an education system moderates the influence of social background on students’ track allocation, and whether this happens via primary or secondary effects of social origin. I tackle the problem of omitted-variable bias by analyzing subnational education systems in Switzerland, a country with a variety of cantonal school systems but otherwise homogeneous institutions. Th…
The Gender Wage Gap Opens Long before Motherhood. Panel Evidence on Early Careers in Switzerland
According to a popular argument in economics, the gender wage gap persists not because of employer discrimination against women, but because of the differential investment of fathers and mothers into paid work and the household. We test this argument by comparing the evolution of wages between men and women before the onset of family formation and gendered household specialization. We use a cohort study of young adults for Switzerland (TREE 2000–…
Educational aspirations and decision-making in a context of poverty. A test of rational choice models in El Salvador
Zur Entwicklung der intergenerationalen Mobilität in der Schweiz
Fur Gesellschaften, in denen sich die Allokation sozialer Positionen nach meritokratischen Kriterien gestaltet, hat das Prinzip der Chancengleichheit konstituierenden Charakter. Die grundlegende Vorstellung ist, dass die gesellschaftliche Position, die ein Individuum erreichen kann, nur von der eigenen Leistung abhangt, nicht jedoch von so genannt askriptiven Merkmalen wie zum Beispiel der sozialen Herkunft oder dem Geschlecht. Gesellschaften, in…
Women's aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice
This article examines whether gender differences in preferences for field of study characteristics can explain gendered major choice. Specifically, this study focuses on a broad range of subject characteristics that are often simultaneously present: systemizing skills required (math intensity, reasoning style, affinity for technical work tasks), future job characteristics corresponding with the male breadwinner model (materialism, work-family com…
Skill requirements versus workplace characteristics
What role do skill requirements play in gendered occupational preferences? Previous research has emphasized workplace characteristics such as salaries and family-friendly work hours. Less attention has been paid to skill requirements, even though they are an important part of job descriptions and serve as reference points for individuals' assessment of their suitability for occupations. Using a choice experiment among Swiss adolescents who are in…
Economics (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · School Choice and Performance (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works)