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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness …
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Female under-representation in politics can be the result of parties' selection of candidates and/or of voters' electoral preferences. To assess the impact of these two channels, we exploit the introduction of Italian Law 215/2013, which prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and...
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How do electoral rules affect the representation of women? We collect panel data on the universe of Italian politicians … electoral rules favour the election of women. We propose a new channel through which this result is obtained, related to the … different nature of political competition in the two electoral systems: under proportional rules, parties place women less …
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Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …
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