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Cracking under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes toward Maternal Employment in Times of a Pandemic

Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D. - 2019

In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...

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The Gender Gap in Lifetime Earnings : The Role of Parenthood

Glaubitz, Rick; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Wetter, Miriam - 2022

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women’s lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply … the biographical dimension of the gender gap. We observe an average gender lifetime earnings gap of 51.5 percent for birth …

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Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike - 2017

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...

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Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality

Jessen, Jonas - 2021

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture (East Germany) to those in a gender-traditional culture (West Germany)....

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Selection Into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap Across the Distribution and Over Time

Gallego-Granados, Patricia - 2020

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...

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Drivers of Participation Elasticities across Europe : Gender or Earner Role within the Household?

Bartels, Charlotte; Shupe, Cortnie - 2021

separately, according to their potential earnings rather than gender. Our results show an average participation elasticity of 0 …

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Does Gender Affect Funding Success at the Peer-to-Peer Credit Markets? Evidence from the Largest German Lending Platform

Barasinska, Nataliya - 2014

Studies of peer-to-peer lending in the USA find that female borrowers have better chances of getting funds than males. Is differential treatment of borrowers of different sexes a common feature of peer-to-peer lendingmarkets or is it subject to specific businessmodels, ways of fixing loan...

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No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing Against Self

Apicella, Coren - 2017

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found when competing against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online market experiment, involving a total of...

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