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, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …, reflecting a rise in the family-career complementarity. For women, the family-career trade-off has eased for non … developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …
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Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
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to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
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We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to … what extent family factors are responsible for this gap. We find that the gap has narrowed modestly during this period, and … become mothers, they do not. Our fixed effects panel estimates of the effects of family factors deviate from the cross …
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We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …
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of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight from … unequal power relations that influence the sexual division of labor, both within the family and in the workplace. A notion of …
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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …
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analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …
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problematic definition of employment of women), (v) elementary mistakes in data cleaning, RDD estimation, and interpretation of …
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We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender … wage gap than years of schooling and work experience. In decompositions, adjusting for skill mismatch decreases the gender …
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