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Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …
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Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …
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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …
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the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent …
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Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle. We analyze absenteeism of teachers and find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a...
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Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to …
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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the...
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) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has …
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Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions … controlling for covariates. However, family characteristics have different impacts on women's and men's promotion probabilities …
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