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 … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers' egalitarian attitudes … trends toward more egalitarian gender roles. …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males … and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women … ever before. Do these developments hold also for Germany? Based on socio-economic and demographic analysis of gender …

and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network … effects suggests that remittance behavior is affected by traditional gender roles. Third, the migrant's social integration in …

looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …

males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …

Gender-specific determinants of remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In … changing gender roles in the households of origin as well. To date, research has failed to address the gender …-specific determinants of remittances from Germany. Here we attempt to fill this gap, focusing on gender roles and network effects. We …

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …-employment and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment … states. The gender differential in the transition rates is decomposed using a novel extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca technique …