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  The Economist.

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  Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, the Iran conflict has boosted oil firms' profits.

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  And why women's earnings go up when their male manager has a baby daughter.

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  But first.

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  For all the big corporate talk about narrowing the gender pay gap,

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  women across the rich world still earn quite a bit less than men do.

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  Schemes that try to even the score or creative accounting often backfire.

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  But I've heard from Michelle Hennessy,

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  who leads our online data journalism section, Graphic Detail,

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  and she says there's one clear thing that men in high places can do,

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  or rather that their partners can do.

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  It's a pretty striking finding.

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  It comes from a new study that we just covered

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  and it found that basically immediately after a male manager has a daughter,

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  women's earnings at his firm go up.

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  So tell me about the study. How do we know this fact?

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  Right, how can this be?

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