women in the US relative to their male counterparts. After ruling out gender differences in cognitive and non … with greater financial knowledge for men but not for women in the US. Once we remove any country-of-ancestry gender … variation from these preferences, gender convergence in financial knowledge continues to be associated with women's (relative …

We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data … for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

.4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and … associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 …

This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with … that descending from more gender-equal societies makes girls relatively more prone to smoke than boys. Using data from over … that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of ancestry, the higher the likelihood that immigrant girls …

This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living … gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …

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 …

force may have been driven by changes in beliefs regarding men' and women's gender roles. As for men, the reform only had a …We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender …-use data from 2016, we find that the reform had a direct impact on Japanese women's attachment to the labor force, which seems …

terms of employment status at arrival). Among women, Moroccans and Ecuadorians follow a similar pattern that contrasts with … the one observed among Romanian women. While the former mainly arrive to Spain to work with legal status and with time in … Eastern Mediterranean men and women …

-countries, we find that the positive association between the female-male gender gap in math test scores (which on average favors … boys) and alternative measures of gender equality vanishes in OECD countries once we account for country fixed effects. Our … relationship between the gender gap in math and female empowerment. Interestingly, our analysis for non-OECD countries uncovers a …