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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
Dhar, Diva - 2018
Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at eroding support for restrictive gender norms, specifically a multi-year school-based intervention in Haryana, India, that engaged...
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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Beyond the War : Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms
Aneja, Abhay; Farina, Silvia; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden expansion of female clerical employment driven by...
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On Her Own Account : How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Field, Erica M. - 2019
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...
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How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 norms on two distinct policy issues: 1) basic rights,...
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Parental Leave : Economic Incentives and Cultural Change
Albrecht, James - 2024
The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay-related parental leave reserved exclusively for each...
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Women's Rights and Development
Fernández, Raquel - 2009
of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …
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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2008
Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464531
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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity
Cette, Gilbert - 2016
On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...
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Disability policies : Reform strategies in a comparative perspective
Böheim, René - 2016
We analyze different disability policy strategies using policy scores developed by the OECD for the period 1990 to 2007. Applying model-based and hierarchical agglomerative clustering, we investigate the existence of distinct country clusters, characterized by particular policy combinations. In...
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