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Girls and boys : economic crisis, fertility, and birth outcomes
Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2018
We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...
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Socioemotional skills in early childhood : evidence from a maternal psychosocial intervention
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … productivity of maternal mental health in the first 12 months of life. It moved outcomes for depressed women closer to outcomes for …
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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the … previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed pre- and post …-COVID-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times: evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected …
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The effect of a health and economic shock on the gender, ethnic and racial gap in labor market outcomes: evidence from COVID-19
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021
affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of this health and economic shock on labor market …
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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2015
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
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Path-breakers : how does women's political participation respond to electoral success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018
Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women...
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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1999
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
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Gender norms and intimate partner violence
González, Libertad; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for...
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