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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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once the shock is over. Specifically, we focus on individuals who were children during World War II and assess the … individuals who as children were more exposed to meat scarcity tend to consume relatively more meat and spend more on food during … larger for women and persist intergenerationally, as the adult children of mothers who experienced meat scarcity similarly …
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more …. Second, we show that a randomized mentoring intervention that exposes low-SES children to predominantly female role models …
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also face more discrimination in the labour market, the consequences of overeducation are likely to differ by gender. Using …
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We study the working conditions of care and domestic workers who offer their services on digital platforms in Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom. By drawing on survey data collected on a digital platform in 2019, we examine workers' demographics and their experiences with...
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according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the …, the gender gap in average commutingtimes has been reduced considerably over the period considered with only small gaps …
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This article considers the complexity of ea rly employment life-courses focusing on the heterogeneity by gender and …
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