living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on … (as opposed to math-specific) gender stereotypes on the math gender gap, and suggest that parents' gender social norms …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the … gender environments play an important role in explaining differences in health-reporting behaviours across gender, at least …

We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they … live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our analysis, we combine rich survey data … describing a sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents in 8th grade with municipal voting results dealing with gender equality and policy …

Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky … gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts … of Danish labour market entrants, this paper examines the intergenerational correlation in gender-stereotypical choice of …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living …This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …

Does international return migration transfer gender norms? Focusing on Jordan, an Arab country where discrimination … that women with a returnee family member are more likely to have internalized discriminatory gender norms than women in …

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …