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Social networks, gender norms and women's labor supply : experimental evidence using a job search platform
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022
Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470611
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Social Networks, Gender Norms and Women's Labor Supply : Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022
Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241093
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Social norms or income taxation : what drives couple's labor supply? ; experimental evidence ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - 2014 - This version: February 2014, Preliminary version
(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483843
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Gender norms and the motherhood penalty : experimental evidence from India
Bedi, Arjun Singh; Majilla, Tanmoy; Rieger, Matthias - 2018
This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803204
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Of housewives and feminists: gender norms and intra-household division of labour
Görges, Luise - 2021
To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510011
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Gender norms and labor-supply expectations : experimental evidence from adolescents
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020
norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499686
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Gender norms and labor-supply expectations : experimental evidence from adolescents
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020
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 … partners to work 30 hours or more. Randomized treatments that highlight the existing traditional norm towards mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298681
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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty : Experimental Evidence from India
Bedi, Arjun S. - 2018
This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925511
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Women's mobility and labor supply : experimental evidence from Pakistan
Field, Erica Marie; Vyborny, Kate - 2022
In cities with conservative norms or high crime, female workers may face greater restrictions on their, physical mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we experimentally vary access to a transport service in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185231
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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and … parental leave benefits and subsidized child care leads to sizable employment effects of mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259541