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that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … improved the relative status of women relative to both men before and after the transition to social feminism. Twentieth … century women's BMIs were higher than 19th century women relative to men with the rise of social feminism. The primary source …
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choices using the example of child care – a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly … invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women's freedom of mobility, and norms about their sexual behavior … often extended periods of male absence from the settlement, implying larger payoffs to imposing restrictions on women …
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Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...
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larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …
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Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …
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Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …
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-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …
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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth...
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