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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities
Gronqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - 2012
corrected for, the non-cognitive correlation is close to that of cognitive ability. We also predict mothers‘ abilities and find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170038
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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children: Evidence from a Nationwide Reform
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2009
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320201
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Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320345
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Do Equal Rights for a Minority Affect General Life Satisfaction?
Berggren, Niclas - 2017
While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions embodying equal rights for gay people matter for the life satisfaction of gays, we combine these two issues to analyze how the latter type of institutions relates to general life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961479
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Cultural Determinants of Gender Roles : Pragmatism Is an Important Factor Behind Gender Equality Attitudes Among Children of Immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - 2016
This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six cultural dimensions. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examined within country of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979970
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Gender Quotas and Women's Political Leadership
O'Brien, Diana Z.; Rickne, Johanna Karin - 2014
Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership remain largely unknown. We exploit a quasi-experiment — a zipper quota imposed by the Swedish Social Democratic national party on municipal party groups — to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142248
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities
Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas; Öckert, Björn - 2011
corrected for, the non-cognitive correlation is close to that of cognitive ability. We also predict mothers' abilities and find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320197
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When dad can stay home: Fathers' workplace flexibility and maternal health
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2019
physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145508
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Fertile Soil for Intrapreneurship : Impartial Institutions and Human Capital
Ljunge, Martin; Stenkula, Mikael - 2021
Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped research area. This paper provides a seminal contribution regarding the methodological approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249441
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Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms
Ichino, Andrea - 2019
We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869022