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. Betty Friedan (1963) postulated that beliefs about gender were formed by consumer good producers, but a simple model … unlikely to be universal, or even common, but gender stereotypes have a long history. To explain that history, we turn to a … childbearing, which may explain why gender-related beliefs changed radically among generations born in the 1940s …
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household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …
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Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
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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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