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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role of changes in the earnings structure and persistent institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437047
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435168
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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
interruptions contribute to gender gaps in pay: women's weekly earnings decline by 3.3 percent over the summer months, about five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337799
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Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares : Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2016
in place. After a tax reform in 2005 that created strong incentives to retain earnings within businesses, the increase … was massive: accounting for earnings retained in the corporate sector leads to more than doubling of the share of income … of top 0.1% in some years. Furthermore, adjusting for retained earnings stabilizes the composition of the top income …
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. The impact on the earnings-weighted participation rate is smaller at about 1.4 percentage points. This drag on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435130
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The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers
Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
reduced the U.S. labor force by approximately 500,000 people (0.2 percent of adults) and imply an average forgone earnings per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388791
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Where Are the Workers? : From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting
Lee, Dain; Park, Jinhyeok; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
hours and had high earnings. Workers' hours reduction can explain why the labor market is even tighter than what is expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537727
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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers : Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056145
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Estimating Causal Effects of Fertility on Life Course Outcomes : Evidence Using A Dyadic Genetic Instrumental Variable Approach
Zheng, Boyan; Lu, Qiongshi; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition of earlier births to assess whether having more...
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