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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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) donations to a non-profit organization advocating for women in the workplace …
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Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender norms then prevalent in Britain. We link this index to outcomes over the life-cycle. Conditional on age-11 covariates, a one standard deviation increase in our index predicts a...
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northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests …
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paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …
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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 light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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Black women were more likely than white women to participate in the labor force from 1870 until at least 1980 and to … stigma associated with women's work, which Goldin (1977) suggested could be traced to cultural norms rooted in slavery. In …
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We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that …-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women …
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