well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … different ways. Specifically, East German women were required to work full-time whereas West German women were expected to focus …

Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This … decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large … representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …

household surveys, we find that in Italy - the country with highly asymmetric gender role prescriptions - women's risk …This study investigates the importance of social norms for shaping women's and men's decision to participate in the … stock market, aiming to disentangle the different channels playing a role in this decision. Gender role asymmetry is …