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relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …
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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 … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …
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We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In … perceived honesty matters and men's truthfulness rises way beyond the level of women. To elaborate on these gender differences …
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We document gender differences in the price paid for work-related air travel among similar workers within a firm. We … women booking flights earlier than men. We investigate potential mechanisms that could explain the observed gender … differences. We find that gender differences increase with age, but we find no deviation from this trend during the childbearing …
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Do gender disparities in academia reflect that female scholars are held to higher standards than males? We address this … makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …
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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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There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …
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Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … association between maternal and paternal overweight and that of their offspring by gender, alongside the combined parental effect …. We aim at identifying the existence and the magnitude of a gender-assortative transmission of overweight after …
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The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … precise mechanisms behind the gender difference in competitive responsiveness are still not fully uncovered. In this paper, we … competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …
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