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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings, labor market participation, working hours and wage rate, while fathers … babysit, which generate motherhood earnings penalty in labor market. Finally, well-being analysis shows that subjective …
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2024
We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with WFH being more prevalent among women than among men....
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
, women give up non-local jobs regardless of their earnings level, their partner's labour market status and local economic …
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences …, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to … heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings penalties of 9% in comparison to heterosexual men, and bisexual women faced …
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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
The FIFA Soccer World Cups often happen within one month just before the national entrance exam to universities and colleges in Vietnam. Watching soccermatches can distract male students from their studiesand reduce their probability to pass the exam. We find that Vietnamese men who had the...
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COVID-19, race, and gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
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Irrigation and culture : gender roles and women's rights
Fredriksson, Per; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...
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