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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Identity as Self-Image

Bénabou, Roland - 2025

We review the economic literature on self-image, which conceptualizes identity as a set of beliefs about one's core traits, values, goals, and social ties. Self-image concerns lead individuals to process information and make choices in non-standard ways that help affirm and protect certain...

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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women

Bertrand, Marianne - 2016

In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some...

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Striving for Balance in Economics : Towards a Theory of the Social Determination of Behavior

Hoff, Karla - 2015

This paper is an attempt to broaden the standard economic discourse by importing insights into human behavior not just from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas the concept of the decision-maker is the rational actor in standard economics and, in early work in behavioral...

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The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013

What determines beliefs about the ability and appropriate role of women? An overwhelming majority of men and women born early in the 20th century thought women should not work; a majority now believes that work is appropriate for both genders. Betty Friedan (1963) postulated that beliefs about...

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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Niederle, Muriel - 2008

Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects competitive entry. We find that when women are...

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The Gender Gap in Preferences : Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests

Cuevas, Ángel; Cuevas, Ruben; Desmet, Klaus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper uses information on the frequency of 45,397 Facebook interests to study how the difference in preferences between men and women changes with a country's degree of gender equality. For preference dimensions that are systematically biased toward the same gender across the globe,...

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Keeping Up Appearances : An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling

Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Hernandez-Nunez, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the potential welfare cost of relative rank considerations using a series of vignettes and lab-in-the-field experiments with over 2,000 individuals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We show that: (1) individuals judged to be of a lower rank are perceived as more likely to be sidelined from...

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Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation

Persson, Petra - 2016

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further … suggest that greater stress exposure among the poor may partially explain the intergenerational persistence of poverty …

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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

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