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decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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In an effort to reduce the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM … scientists might act as role models and counteract negative gender stereotypes that are pervasive in science fields. However, as … of yet, there is still no clear evidence on the role of mentor or advisor gender in reducing the STEM gender gap. We use …
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ineffectual. Spurred by student grievances, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights recently began investigating … how sexual assault cases were handled at a number of institutions under the Title IX provisions of the Education … data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …
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Aspirations and plans for the future can influence investments made today. Gender gaps in these views can perpetuate … gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how gender gaps in aspirations and expectations are affected by the local … labor market. Using a national longitudinal survey from Japan, we begin by documenting large gender differences in …
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characteristic of same-age neighbors their gender affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …
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Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
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-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
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prepare enable to close the gender gap …
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Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
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