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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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Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap
D’Acunto, Francesco - 2020
Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...
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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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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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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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Effects of Daily School and Care Disruptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Mental Health
Gassman-Pines, Anna; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fitz-Henley, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote school, which in turn is subject to its own types of...
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The Effects of Job Characteristics on Retirement
Hudomiet, Péter - 2019
, while the fraction working would be 17.2% if none had the option of flexible hours. We further found that job stress …
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Maternal and Fetal Health Effects of Working during Pregnancy
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2019
We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth outcomes but also on maternal employment. We match the...
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Testing, Stress, and Performance : How Students Respond Physiologically to High-Stakes Testing
Heissel, Jennifer A. - 2018
A potential contributor to socioeconomic disparities in academic performance is the difference in the level of stress … experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress - due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability - can … affect how individuals' bodies respond to stressors in general, including the stress of standardized testing. This, in turn …
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Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
Kaur, Supreet; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Oh, Suanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Concerns about money can create mental burdens such as worry, stress, or sadness. These in turn could interfere with the …
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