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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers

Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Training to become a physician involves long work hours that can be physically demanding, particularly for surgeons. Are birth outcomes of physician mothers affected as a result? Using Texas birth data from 2007-2014, we compared birth outcomes between physicians and another highly educated...

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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

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Gendered Change : 150 Years of Transformation in US Hours

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Women's contribution to the economy has been markedly underestimated in predominantly agricultural societies, due to their widespread involvement in unpaid agricultural work. Combining data from the US Census and several early sources, we create a consistent measure of male and female employment...

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Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use : Evidence from India's Pink Slip Program

Chen, Yutong; Cosar, Kerem; Ghose, Devaki; Mahendru, Shirish - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed...

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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor market in which a larger supply of older workers can...

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Beyond the War : Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms

Aneja, Abhay; Farina, Silvia; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden expansion of female clerical employment driven by...

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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children

Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance (HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and...

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Long Social Distancing

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S

Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...

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