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gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance …
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sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …. Interestingly, this is the result of women focusing on sabotaging each other while men sabotage indiscriminately. Our results have …
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A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...
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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …
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the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …
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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 … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …
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Workplace tournaments are one likely contributor to gender differences in labor market outcomes. Relative to men, women … higher wages for the low-ranked. As expected, we find that women are more likely than men to obtain such a safeguard. However …-proportionally disadvantages women. Thus, we provide novel evidence that easing women into tournaments can backfire. …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with 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 hypothetical scenario, we document that most girls expect to work...
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When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th...
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