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This paper addresses the question of whether societies that afford economic opportunity to women offer other opportunities as well. The analysis in this paper shows that the performance of a country's women in international athletic competition reflects the degree of their relative participation...
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together these three produce the "parental gender gap," defined as the difference in income between mothers and fathers. We … fathers manage to expand their relative gains, particularly among college graduates. The parental gender gap in earnings …
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household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …
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Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …
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analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …
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The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …
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study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …
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Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...
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the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …
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