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Gender norms and income misreporting within households
Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
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Breaking the silence : group discussions, and the adoption of welfare-improving technologies
Castro, Silvia; Mang, Clarissa - 2023
Social pressure and stigma can hinder the adoption of available technologies, especially in the context of sensitive health issues. We run a field experiment on the take-up of menstrual products in Bangladesh and test a discussion-based intervention in a work setting. We vary participation in...
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
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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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 cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
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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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare
Riedel, Lukas - 2024
This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...
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Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction : register data based evidence from France and Germany
Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2020
analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is … found that opportunity costs play a role in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high … earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their …
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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility : evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Liepmann, Hannah - 2018
How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …. Thus, the demand shock did not only depress the aggregate fertility level but also changed the composition of mothers. My …
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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2024
This paper studies how the statutory right to work part-time affects mothers’ post-birth labor market outcomes. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate a reform in Germany that granted the right to work part-time to employees of firms with more than 15 employees. I find that...
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Molecular genetics and subjective well-being
Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Cesarini, David; Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2013
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