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period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare …
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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 …
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economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been … counterparts. Gender collectively had the greatest explanatory effect associated with stature, followed by age and nativity …
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marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …. -- savings behavior ; marriage ; divorce ; economics of marriage ; gender roles …
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much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed …
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. Finally, our results do not support systematic gender differences in the effect of sanctions on migration. …
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Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality. …
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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 … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …
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significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …
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We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance …
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