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, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …
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This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we demonstrate that female representation leads countries to adopt more stringent climate change policies. We exploit...
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state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on …
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Using a new measure of the strength of gender stereotypes defined at the individual level and based on responses to a … survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days … Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women presented longer standard durations (i.e., purely attached to physiological …, we found that women were more inefficient at lower levels of income, whereas in case of men, this occurred at higher …
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This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...
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Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …
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non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are …
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This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing … (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different … ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is important, as global goals and national policy focus on the improvement …
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