women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report …, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data … for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This …