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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …
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The Gender Gap in 'Bitcoin Literacy'
Bannier, Christina E. - 2019
Using nationally representative US data, we show that women possess weaker knowledge regarding the characteristics of Bitcoin compared to men. Investigating the determinants driving this gap, we find that socio-demographics and personality traits explain only a small share of the gap. Adding...
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Gender Retirement Gap
Garnick, Diane - 2017
Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment … choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the … reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and spending in retirement are anything but average for women. Consequently …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Gender roles and the gender expectations gap
D'Acunto, Francesco; Malmendier, Ulrike; Weber, Michael - 2020
Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...
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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
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Gender in jeopardy! : the role of opponent gender in high-stakes competition
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2016
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...
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COVID-19 and the employment gender gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...
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Children and the remaining gender gaps in the labor market
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2020
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
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Girls' comparative advantage in reading can largely account for the gender gap in math-intensive fields
Breda, Thomas; Napp, Clotilde - 2019
Gender differences in math performance are now small in developed countries and they cannot explain on their own the strong under-representation of women in math-related fields. This latter result is however no longer true once gender differences in reading performance are also taken into...
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