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mathematics, and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We …
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...
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This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...
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Using data from the 1976 and 1978 National Longitudinal. Surveys of young men and young women, this study examines racial differences in the magnitude and composition of wealth and the reasons for them. On average, young black families hold 18 percent of the wealth of young white families, and...
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impact of home and family responsibilities, and constraints posed by workplace culture. We also consider the role that …This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment …. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus...
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wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in … simpler, more controlled, environments, such as corporations. Corporate culture, thus, is not only interesting per se, but …
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Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …
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