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their role model, and it opens the scope for active policies aimed at promoting good parents' behaviours. We follow two … habit, and "short run" household fixed effect models, where we aim at identifying the impact of the role model exerted by …
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Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … the hypothesis that maternal gender role attitudes affect daughters' economic opportunities only, we find no effect on …
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The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the importance individuals attach to labor-market activities ヨ which is influenced by...
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suggest that entrepreneurial bosses may act as role models for the entrepreneurship activities of their employees, especially …
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In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some...
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children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role attitudes are also transmitted across cultural … boundaries, i.e., from immigrants to natives. Focusing on mixed couples, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign … market participation is significantly positively related to the gender role attitudes in her mother-in-law's country of …
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This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport choices of boys and girls during high school. Using data...
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endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely … explanation for this surprising result. -- role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner's curse …
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This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in particular. We argue that increases in female human...
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