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between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a …Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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's behavior as a signal of how the latter would treat her if they met? In order to measure the relative importance of the altruism … than an act of altruism …
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the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …
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measures like the gender wage gap …
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We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor …
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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 … this mechanism. We find that in countries that are historically more gender-equal the tax system today is more … redistributive. At the individual level, we find that in more gender equal countries gender differences in redistributive preferences …
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more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …
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Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for … the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … potential endogeneity of our gender norms measure with an index of the degree of reproductive health liberalization when …
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This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …
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