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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and...
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their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … earns less than her potential if she does work. Couples where the wife earns more than the husband are less satisfied with …
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This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to modern contraceptives. The analysis leverages two large policy changes that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s:...
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Sex ratios at birth in South Korea reached 116.5 boys per 100 girls in 1990, but have since declined. In 2007, sex ratios were almost normal, a development heralded as a sign that son preference and sex choice have vanished. However, normal sex ratios imply neither. We show that over the last 60...
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observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … regime in that women disproportionately shy away from competitive work settings. Yet, there are important factors that … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
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access to IT in terms of overall research output and an increase in the number of new co-authors they work with. Early …
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This paper uses a new data source, American Mathematics Competitions, to examine the gender gap among high school … students at very high achievement levels. The data bring out several new facts. There is a large gender gap that widens … indicates that there is only moderate variation in the gender gap across schools. The highest achieving girls in the U.S. are …
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Many violent relationships are characterized by a high degree of cyclicality: women who are the victims of domestic violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the context of domestic violence. This time inconsistency...
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positively correlated across high income countries. The trend in men's household work suggests that the low fertility countries …
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