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We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have...
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crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …
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limited scope for the father quota to alter household behaviors beyond the parental leave period and reduce gender inequality …
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This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market … gender disparities in labor market outcomes. …
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Social norms are an important barrier to gender convergence. We show that public policy designed to promote gender … equality at home can pave the way towards gender convergence by shaping gender norms in the next generation. We combine the … difference-in-differences approach, we show that children born after the policy change exhibit more gender egalitarian attitudes …
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We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious … in-person interview. The data show a very large gender gap in success rates: women's success rate is 36% lower than men …% lower than for comparable male candidates. We show that this gap is explained by reviewers engaging in gender balancing …
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This paper provides new evidence supporting that gender differences in post-graduate educational choices contribute to …
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A framework is developed with what we call technology capital. A country is a measure of locations. Absent policy … constraints, a firm owning a unit of technology capital can produce the composite output good using the unit of technology capital … is what constrains the number of units it operates using this unit of technology capital. If it has two units of …
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