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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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The Skills to Pay the Bills : Returns to On-the-Job Soft Skills Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
We evaluate the causal impacts of on-the-job soft skills training on the productivity, wages, and retention of female garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading. Treated workers were 20 percent more productive...
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
young, unmarried women rather than current mothers) allows us to rule out that mechanisms other than increases in the …
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema - 2010
with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again … sons and daughters, having few or no older brothers results in earlier weaning. Third, these gender effects peak as mothers …
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Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; … - 2021
shape opportunities to form and maintain meaningful ties with other women. We track the social networks of 2,170 mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246285
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Old-Age Labor Force Participation in Germany : What Explains the Trend Reversal Among Older Men? And What the Steady Increase Among Women?
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2017
The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men's labor force participation - from a long declining trend that began in the early 1970s to an increasing trend starting from the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase...
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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development
Bloom, David E. - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...
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Marketization of Production and the Us-Europe Employment Gap
Freeman, Richard B.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2021
Women work much more in the US than in Germany and most other EU economies. We find that the US-German employment gap is not strongly related to cross-country differences in the level of pay or social benefits. The difference in employment is due to the different marketization of activities...
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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education and earnings …
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The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries
Heath, Rachel - 2016
Two important recent trends in most developing countries have are the rise in female labor force participation and the closing of gender gaps in school enrollment. This article begins by exploring the causes of the increases in female education, which include greater job availability and policy...
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