We study resource allocation within households in Côte d'Ivoire. In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and … wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are … composition of household expenditure is sensitive to the gender of the recipient of a rainfall shock. For example, rainfall shocks …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … using U.S. and German data show that they do not arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not … associated with marital status; nor do they stem from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work …

Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender …, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the …

Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender … less to gender norms live in regions with higher female employment and university attendance, highlighting the role of the …