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Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help

Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020

We study how childbirth increases the likelihood of young, working mothers to claim disability insurance and how paternity leave could ease this effect. Our event study analysis uses Belgian data to show that the incidence rate of disability across gender only diverges after first-time...

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On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Holzmann, Robert - 2016

Heterogeneity in longevity between socioeconomic groups is increasingly documented for developed economies and is reviewed in the paper. Heterogeneity in life expectancy disaggregated by main socioeconomic characteristics – such as age, gender, race, health, education, profession, income, and...

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...

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The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

Gee, Laura Katherine - 2016

This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...

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Do Female Experts Face an Authority Gap? Evidence from Economics

Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Smith, Sarah - 2024

This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male versus female experts. Members of the public were asked for their opinions on topical issues and shown the opinion of either a male or a female economist, all professors at leading...

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Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab

Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2020

If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before choosing whom to hire, they receive information...

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Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People

Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven J.; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2020

This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...

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Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes: A Large Field Study of Managers

Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017

at lower levels. Female managers have stronger beliefs in their own managerial abilities regarding feminine skills and … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self …-stereotypes vary across types of managerial employees and firms. Beliefs in own ability could explain at most ten percent of the …

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Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion

Van Effenterre, Clémentine - 2017

This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right-wing congressmen in France, and increases support for...

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Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors

Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica; Pilossoph, Laura; … - 2021

search period. Using survey data on risk preferences and beliefs about expected future earnings, we present empirical …

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