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 …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the … labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility …

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 … household, but has no sizable effect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new …

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 … norm variable is taken from a question on whether “men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce” and …

market wage and a lower bargaining power within the family with respect to sons. Consequently, they provide more informal … redistribution from families with sons to families with daughters and can be implemented by a gender-specific schedule of public LTC … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … losses concentrated on women, and gender inequality increases. The gender-specific effects are due to a woman's ability to … labor market when young, and a negative trade shock induces women to substitute more to family activities than men. High …

pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women …We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms, they largely ignore individual heterogeneity, such as gender … differences. We experimentally analyze gender differences in prisoner’s dilemmas, where collusive behavior harms a passive third … are informed about personal characteristics in the second game. Results show that guilt-averse women are significantly …