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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519118
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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
children. In contrast, `flow estimates’ suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226886
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Gender differences in further training participation : the role of individuals, households and firms
Burgard, Claudia - 2012
indicate that there are hardly significant gender differences in the determinants of self-initiated training while employer …, besides job characteristics, as important factors determining the gender gap in employer-provided training participation …. -- Training ; time use ; partner characteristics ; gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579279
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Task returns and the gender pay gap
Storm, Eduard - 2023
to a reduction in the gender pay gap. I find women receive lower returns to interactive tasks, even within occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433364
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Does a spouse's health shock influence the partner's risk attitudes?
Kokot, Johanna - 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse's health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill. Moreover, an indisposition of the spouse, which may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700787
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Why are more boys born during war? : evidence from Germany at mid century
Bethmann, Dirk - 2009
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903701
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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes : evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also explain economic outcomes of individuals other than immediate relatives …. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … positively related to the gender role attitudes in her mother-in-law’s country of origin. Employing a new identification strategy …
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Who feels constrained by high debt burdens? : subjective vs. objective measures of household indebtedness
Keese, Matthias - 2010
; gender differences …
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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339883
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Who does the shopping? : German time-use evidence, 1996 – 2009
Procher, Vivien; Vance, Colin - 2013
panel methods to analyze, descriptively and econometrically, gender disparities in shopping behavior among couples using … increase each partner's time in shopping. -- Shopping ; Time-use ; gender differences …
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