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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
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Household decisions are profoundly shaped by a complex set of financial options due to Social Security rules determining retirement, spousal, and survivor benefits, along with benefit adjustments that vary with the age at which these are claimed. These rules influence optimal household asset...
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This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage …. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …
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's most distinctive trait. Applied to gender stereotypes, the model provides a unified account of disparate evidence regarding … the gender gap in education and in labor markets …
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idiosyncratic, such as changes in the gender and racial composition of a grade in a school in adjacent years. I use specification …
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This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital...
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individuals who differ according to gender; education; race; and age. The main finding is that there are important differences …
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This paper analyzes the effects of differential turnover patterns and the existence of firm specific training, jointly financed by employer and employee, on male-female wage and employment differentials. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sex differences in occupational distribution and...
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parameters of the best linear approximation is characterized via its support function, and limit theory is developed for the …, Ichimura, and Meghir (2007). Our results yield robust evidence of a gender wage gap, both in the 1970s and 1990s, at quantiles … evidence of a gender wage gap extends to quantiles up to the 0.7. When the assumption is further strengthened to require …
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