well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … different ways. Specifically, East German women were required to work full-time whereas West German women were expected to focus …

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 …, significantly reduce girls' self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender difference in labor supply between …

We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of … misreporting accounts for the discontinuity in the distribution of women's relative incomes just below the point where a woman … outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …

refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns "he," "she," or the gender-inclusive singular "they." In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …, or gender-inclusive. Little is known as to whether the framing of norms with respect to these grammatical genders affects …

second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women … holding more conservative gender norms are the ones who mostly reduce their income. This suggests that tax policies can … gender norms. …

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 …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … household, but has no sizable efficect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new …

-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …

more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …

Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for … the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … norm variable is taken from a question on whether “men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce” and …