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COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate the characteristics of those who report working from home and the relationship with gender … individuals who work from home typically receive higher wages compared to those who work from employers' premises, but the gender …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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This study examines how restricted access to microfinance by households affects children's learning outcomes, utilizing a unique natural experiment that halted all microfinance operations in Andhra Pradesh (AP), India, in 2010. The analysis exploits quasi-random variation in district-level...
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Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …
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We provide novel evidence on the existence and the extent of intergenerational transmission of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from the Almalaurea data. Parental influence on two STEM...
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Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain … the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against … correctly, and (iii) respond correctly in high-stakes situations. Even risk preferences in wagering decisions, where gender …
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period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare …
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various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these … violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms … regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to persist even after the historical …
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, we estimate the effects of exposure to female political leadership on gender attitudes and behaviors. For son preference …, we find that the gender quota reduced the propensity for parents with two daughters to give a third-parity birth, whereas … self-reported son preference revealed in survey data. We further find that the gender quota encouraged female high school …
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This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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