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 …

with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual … menstrual health and hygiene and observe how this changes the perceived social norms. We find that the majority of women report …, although results are more pronounced for women who have more autonomy and agency over their own decisions …

measures like the gender wage gap …

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 …

Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …

more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …

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 …

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 …

refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns “he,” “she,” or the gender-inclusive singular “they.” In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …, or gender-inclusive. Little is known as to whether the framing of norms with respect to these grammatical genders affects …

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 …