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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
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document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of … study fields leading to "pink collar" jobs, such as education and social work. They also display a specific choice of work …
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document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to …
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supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
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gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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