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regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women … attendance differ by women's characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women. Furthermore, we also …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link between … gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical …, significantly reduce girls' self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender difference in labor supply between …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499686
regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women … attendance differ by women's characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women. Furthermore, childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159291
In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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. Comparing how parental caregiving time varies by gender and use of nonparental childcare arrangements, we find that new … constraints on nonparental childcare arrangements during the pandemic have potentially increased the gender difference in parental …
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women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …
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provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second …
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By the end of the nineteenth century, labor legislation for women had become a prominent issue in the United States … gainful employment. Our findings indicate that laws regulating health and safety conditions and restricting women’s night work … our period of analysis. Examining heterogeneous effects reveals that younger and married women without children witnessed …
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