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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears … teacher gender) help explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these explanations help in explaining a large … portion of the gender gap, we show that boys and girls differ significantly in perceptions about their own ability in math …
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This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
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. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …
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of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …
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-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European countries for the analysis. The causal impact of education on gender role … instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education's moderating effect …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …
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We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …
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document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of … study fields leading to "pink collar" jobs, such as education and social work. They also display a specific choice of work …
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the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … predominantly to sex-based grammatical gender. …
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