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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …
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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income
Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to...
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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … of transmission was the larger provision of education for girls in commercial centers. …
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total...
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Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
Flabbi, Luca; Macis, Mario; Moro, Andrea; Schivardi, Fabiano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female leadership increases with the share of female workers. This...
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Gender Identity and Relative Income Within Households
Bertrand, Marianne; Kamenica, Emir; Pan, Jessica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show the distribution of the share of income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of 1/2, where the wife's income exceeds the husbands income. We argue that this pattern is best explained by gender...
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Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain: Glass Floors versus Glass Ceilings
Dolado, Juan J.; Llorens, Vanesa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain. Quantile regressions …. Our main findings are two-fold. On the one hand, when dealing with the group with tertiary education, we find higher … the other, for the group with primary and secondary education, the converse result holds, pointing out to the existence of …
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Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries
Azmat, Ghazala; Güell, Maia; Manning, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
There is an enormous literature on gender gaps in pay and labour market participation but virtually no literature on gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in unemployment, there are others in which the female unemployment...
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