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gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively …
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One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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We study the effectiveness of a novel measure to reduce gender gaps in political empowerment: double preference voting conditioned on gender, coupled with gender quotas on candidate lists. This policy was introduced in 2013 in Italian local elections. Using a regression discontinuity design, we...
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be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad …
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Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … men and women in Turkey. There are significant differences between the genders, nevertheless. In particular, the effect of …
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the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important …
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Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …. Moreover, we find that women tend more towards giving half the endowment while men tend more towards “all or nothing.” The …
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entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment …
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employ proportionally more women and appoint female managers. They also generate cultural spillovers, increasing domestic …
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family members and to measure maternal labor force participation throughout the child’s entire childhood. Our empirical … participation has significant and negative effects on years of education and labor market outcomes. However, the effects are small …, which supports the notion that maternal labor force participation has, on average, a small effect on long-term outcomes for …
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